Note 17 — II.
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Œuv. i. 89. Condorcet had 16 votes, and Bailly 15. ‘Jamais aucune élection,’ says La Harpe, who was all for Buffon, ‘n’avait offert ni ce nombre ni ce partage.’—Philos. du 18ième Siècle, i. 77. A full account of the election, and of Condorcet’s reception, in Grimm’s Corr. Lit. xi. 50-56.