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