Mason Gaffney wrote: > 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? Well, I just feel that without vestiges, remains, records, etc. it is (more) difficult to write the history! Alain Alcouffe