Sophie de Condorcet

Sophie de Grouchy
Sophie de Condorcet
Born	Marie-Louise-Sophie de Grouchy (1764-04-08)8 April 1764 Meulan, France
Died	8 September 1822(1822-09-08) (aged 58) Paris, France
Other names	Madame de Condorcet
Known for	salon hostess
Spouse	Nicolas de Condorcet ​ ​ (m. 1786; died 1794)​

Sophie de Condorcet (1764 in Meulan – 8 September 1822 in Paris), also known as Sophie de Grouchy and best known as Madame de Condorcet, was a prominent French salon hostess from 1789 to the Reign of Terror, and again from 1799 until her death in 1822. She was also a philosopher^[1] and the wife of the mathematician and philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet, who died during the Reign of Terror. Despite his death and the exile of her brother, Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy, between 1815 and 1821, she maintained her own identity and was well-connected and influential before, during, and after the French Revolution.

As a hostess, Madame de Condorcet was popular for her kind heart, beauty, and indifference to a person's class or social origins. Unlike that of her fellow-Girondist hostess Madame Roland, Madame de Condorcet's salon always included other women, notably Olympe de Gouges. Condorcet was also a writer and a translator, being highly educated for her day, and was fluent in English and Italian.^[2] Her most important philosophical writing is The Letters on Sympathy, which was published in 1798.^[3] She was also an influential translator of and commenter on works by Thomas Paine and Adam Smith.