| COMT | French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism |
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| COMT | French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791) |
| COMT | French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807) |
| COMT | a French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750) |
| COMT | French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814) |
| COMT | courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793) |
| COMT | Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top |