* 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet ( d. 1458 )

French ambassador Marquis de Bonnac being received by Sultan Ahmed III.

* 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1572 )

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

In the woods to the left of Lutzingen, seven French battalions under the Marquis de Rozel moved into place.

The village of Oberglauheim was packed with 14 battalions commanded by the Marquis de Blainville ( including the effective Irish Brigade known as the ' Wild Geese ').

Nine battalions occupied the village itself, commanded by the Marquis de Clérambault.

The French commander in the village, the Marquis de Blainville, numbered amongst the heavy casualties.

The Marquis de Gruignan attempted a counter-attack, but he was easily brushed aside by the triumphant Allies.

However, it was not until 21: 00 that the Marquis de Blanzac, who had taken charge in Clérambault's absence, reluctantly accepted the inevitability of defeat, and some 10, 000 of France's best infantry had laid down their arms.

The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.

The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.

The Marquis de Maffei attempted one last stand with his Bavarian and Cologne Guards, but it proved in vain.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

The town was retaken by the Duke of Savoy in 1630 ; and in 1691 it was captured by the troops of the Marquis de Vins during the War of the League of Augsburg.

And though, on orders from the hanging Committee and the Marquis de Chennevières, Pissarro's paintings of Pontoise for example had been skyed, hung near the ceiling, this did not prevent Jules-Antoine Castagnary from noting that the qualities of his paintings had been observed by art lovers.

* The 120 Days of Sodom, a novel by the Marquis de Sade, is replete with detailed descriptions of erotic sadomasochistic coprophagia.

The earliest record of somnambulistic clairvoyance is credited to the Marquis de Puységur, a follower of Mesmer, who in 1784 was treating a local dull-witted peasant named Victor Race.

* 1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

* 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

In 1824 Poe served as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as Richmond celebrated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.

He was " one of the first Esprits cavaliers of the age ," a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and music and a friend of most of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheïst Julien Offray de La Mettrie.

Despite ordering a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, Governor Marquis Bernard de Launay was beaten, stabbed and decapitated ; his head was placed on a pike and paraded about the city.

In the eulogy written for the French Academy by the French mathematician and philosopher Marquis de Condorcet, he commented,

William Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet, for example, believed in the possibility of almost limitless improvement of society.

Malthus also constructed his case as a specific response to writings of William Godwin ( 1756 – 1836 ) and of the Marquis de Condorcet ( 1743 – 1794 ).

The voting paradox ( also known as Condorcet's paradox or the paradox of voting ) is a situation noted by the Marquis de Condorcet in the late 18th century, in which collective preferences can be cyclic ( i. e. not transitive ), even if the preferences of individual voters are not.

* September 17 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist ( d. 1794 )

* March 28 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist ( died in prison ) ( b. 1743 )

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A candidate with that property is called a Condorcet winner ( named for the 18th-century French mathematician and philosopher Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet, who championed such outcomes ).

One of the first known uses of the symbol in mathematics is by Marquis de Condorcet from 1770, who used it for partial differences.

On the same day that he replied to Banneker ( August 30, 1791 ), Jefferson sent a letter to the Marquis de Condorcet that contained the following paragraph relating to Banneker's race, abilities, almanac and work with Andrew Ellicott:

The Marquis de Condorcet was its first President.

* March 28: Death of philosopher and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet in prison.

Associated with these views was a group of deputies from elsewhere, of whom the most notable were the Marquis de Condorcet, Claude Fauchet, Marc David Lasource, Maximin Isnard, the Comte de Kersaint, Henri Larivière, and, above all, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Jean Marie Roland and Jérôme Pétion, elected mayor of Paris in succession to Jean Sylvain Bailly on 16 November 1791.

Soon after, Volney befriended Pierre Jean George Cabanis, the Marquis de Condorcet, the Baron d ' Holbach, and Benjamin Franklin.

* Marquis de Condorcet.

Laplace further impressed the Marquis de Condorcet, and already in 1771 Laplace felt that he was entitled to membership of the French Academy of Sciences.

Fouché's interests brought him into contact with the Marquis de Condorcet and the Girondists, and he became a Girondist himself.

* Marquis de Condorcet

* The Marquis de Condorcet publishes Essai sur l ' application de l ' analyse á la probabilité des décisions rendues á la pluralité des voix including his voting paradox, the Condorcet method of voting and his jury theorem.

* The Marquis de Condorcet publishes his second significant paper on integral calculus.