comte : Idioms & Phrases

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auguste comte

  • noun French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study
    Auguste Comte; Comte.
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comte de mirabeau

  • noun French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791)
    Mirabeau; Honore-Gabriel Victor Riqueti.
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comte de rochambeau

  • noun French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)
    Rochambeau; Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur.
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comte de saxe

  • noun a French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750)
    Marshal Saxe; Saxe; Hermann Maurice Saxe.
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comte donatien alphonse francois de sade

  • noun French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
    de Sade; Sade; Marquis de Sade.
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franche-comte

  • noun a former province of eastern France
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isidore auguste marie francois comte

  • noun French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study
    Auguste Comte; Comte.
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