Mason Gaffney wrote: > Yuri Tulupenko characterizes Condorcet's speech as "infamous". This passes > from historiography to opining. Perhaps I ought to have said "controversial". Actually I did not intend to give my own assessment of Condorcet's speech but rather to point to the fact that the speech apparently gained certain notoriety. (It is quoted in several publications on revolutionary vandalism.) Yuri Tulupenko