Yuri Tulupenko characterizes Condorcet's speech as "infamous". This passes from historiography to opining. Even those commentators who defend Condorcet, do so rather apologetically. Please remember, though, that Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was also revolutionary: it was in the Zeitgeist. Rural renters in the U.S.A. were also engaged in burning rent rolls and abusing and evicting and exiling Tory landowners during the American Revolution, so much so that some 1/3 of the lands in the colonies were confiscated from Tories by the time it was over. There has never been any suggestion of compensation from this, the most conservative nation on earth today. (Canadians do suggest it now and then, but mostly in a spirit of badinage, not seriously.) American historians have generally treated this as an act of patriotism, and justifiable retribution for past appropriations and abuses. If so in America, how much moreso in France? Mason Gaffney