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In 1786 Sophie de Grouchy married the famous mathematician and philosopher Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Then 21 or 22, she was an acknowledged beauty; he was 42 and Inspector-General of the Mint and a prominent French Academician.
The chart was also arranged in order of importance; "statesmen are placed on the lower margin, where they are easier to see, because they are the names most familiar to readers." [3] [4] Both Charts were popular for decades—the A New Chart of History went through fifteen editions by 1816. [5]
Grouchy (or de Grouchy) is a French surname. Johannes de Grocheio (Johannes de Grocheio) (c. 1255 – c. 1320), French musical theorist; Jean de Grouchy (1354 - 1435), knight at the time of the Hundred Years' War; Sophie de Condorcet (Sophie de Condorcet) (1764 - 1822), born Marie-Louise-Sophie de Grouchy, French writer and wife of Nicolas de ...
Grouchy was born in Paris on 23 October 1766 into a family of the noblesse d'épée, the son of François-Jacques de Grouchy, 1st Marquis de Grouchy (born 1715) and Gilberte Fréteau de Pény (died 1793). [3] He was raised at the Château de Villette (known as "the little Versailles"), his family's estate in Condécourt, northwest of Paris. [3]
In 1791, Condorcet, along with Sophie de Grouchy, Thomas Paine, Etienne Dumont, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, and Achilles Duchastellet published a brief journal titled Le Républicain, its main goal being the promotion of republicanism and the rejection of constitutional monarchy. The journal's theme was that any sort of monarchy is a threat to ...
Statue of Jean de Grouchy in Harfleur, RP-F-2007-66-13-1. Jean de Grouchy (1354 – 4 November 1435) was a Norman knight, the Sieur de Montérolier from 1395. [1] Known as "the bravest of the brave" and "Father of the Cauchois" (the people of the region of the Pays de Caux), he is remembered for fighting against the English in Normandy during the Hundred Years War.
Marie Thérèse Sophie Richard de Ruffey. Marie-Thérèse-Richard de Ruffey, Marquise de Monnier (January 9, 1754 - September 8, 1789), [1] usually called Sophie, was the mistress of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. She was famously involved in a scandal during which she ran away with Mirabeau to Switzerland.
Born on October 28, 1810, Sophie de Bezancourt was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Maximilien Joseph Antoine Lecat, baron de Bazancourt, [1] and his wife Élisabeth Marie Constance Henriette d'Houdetot. [2] She was Sophie d'Houdetot's granddaughter, and frequented her salon with select society.