Show samong the MARQUIS OF marquis 0 condor JAN ret gave to history the peculiar lory of an who gaiu phoned the cause of the common people against his own clasa during the french revolution jean antohne was horn september bep 17 in of a family that had held to all the old aristocratic traditions but in some way he was different from them at first very studious he made a name for himself by his labors in differential and in tegran calculus then turned from science to become a fanatical reform er a friend of voltaire and and a busy member of the jacobin club ue welcomed the revolution as the dawn of a new ero as the mod ern social reformers welcomed at tho start the disastrous alk movement Con dorcet even condoned the excesses of the revolutionists as the fleeting passion of the populace un fortunately he fell a victim to the very fission he pardoned in 1703 sent out a de cree against him an to satisfy his wife he hid in a garret in an obscure part of paris for eight months ha never stirred out then one spring day he was tempted by alie green trees in a nearby park and by hunger to venture forth in a restaurant he ordered an omelet with a dozen eggs n it this excited a lot of curiosity he was questioned searched found 0 o be an aristocrat and in spite of hla work for the revolution was thrown into prison by the mob to avoid tha guillotine he poisoned himself 0 by giorc adam 1 aada |