[Gutenberg 63435] • La marquise de Condorcet · Sa Famille, son Salon, ses Amis, 1764-1822

Excerpt from La Marquise de Condorcet: Sa Famille, Son Salon, Ses Amis; 1764-1822

Sans doute, son imagination et son coeur s ega rerent dans les utopies et les reves qui agitaient alors le monde nouveau mais ses erreurs, toujours desinteressees, ne furent que des illusions gene reuses et, au lendemain des malheurs les plus ter ribles, elle ne renia, du moins, jamais les convie tions de sa jeunesse.

Depuis le Consulat jusqu a sa mort, conformant sa conduite a ses principes et montrant une dignite que beaucoup de ses amis avaient trop oubliee, Mme de Condorcet resta ce qu'elle etait a l'aurore de1789.

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