PERSON
Sophie de Condorcet
French translator, philosopher, and salonnière (1764–1822) — Condorcet's wife, who smuggled the Sketch manuscript out of the hiding place on the Rue des Fossoyeurs and ensured its publication in 1795.
Sophie de Grouchy married Condorcet in 1786, when he was forty-three and she was twenty-two. She was a translator of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, the author of her own Letters on Sympathy (appended to her Smith translation), and the host of one of the most intellectually serious salons of late-Enlightenment Paris. After Condorcet's death she edited his unpublished manuscripts, oversaw the posthumous publication of the Sketch in 1795, and maintained his intellectual legacy across three subsequent political regimes. Edo Segal refers to her in his foreword as 'Eliza' — the name that preserves the specific domestic courage of the woman whose work made the survival of Condorcet's ideas possible.
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Sophie's intellectual partnership with Condorcet was substantive. She read and criticized his drafts, contributed to the development of his later political and economic thought, and hosted the salon where Condorcet encountered the thinkers whose correspondence shaped his mature work. She