Word: condorcet
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Benjamin Banneker reputedly built the first clock made in the U. S., published a series of almanacs. President Thomas Jefferson sent one of his tracts to the French philosopher Condorcet to back up the Jefferson defense of Negro intellect...
...Author. Educated at the Lycée Condorcet, Author Schlumberger, now 55, took up the study of religious history, gave it up before the War to write a play, poetry and novel. (His grandmother wrote children's books, his mother was a novelist.) With André Gide, he helped found La Nonvelle Revue Française, which published both Night Flight and Saint Saturnin. With Jacques Copeau. he founded the theatre of the Vieux-Colombier which produced two of his own plays...
Born at LeHavre in 1875, his education was completed at the Lycee Condorcet, the Faculte des lettres, Faculte de droit, and School of political science, after which he became a member of the French bar. He was also a member of the "Society of the French Renaissance," professor of the School of political science, and chevalier of the Legion of Honor, besides having a British Military Medal...
...Harvard is an event of importance in the literary history of the University. Although a comparatively young man, he has met with such unexampled success in his chosen profession that he now occupies a position among the foremost French critics. Born in 1860, he was educated at the Lycee Condorcet, graduating with prizes in rhetoric. Continuing his studies he graduated from the Superior Normal School in 1882 with the first prize in the examination for the literary fellowship. Soon after, in 1883, he was appointed professor of rhetoric at Stanislaus College, a position which he has retained since that time...