French Revolution - Bastille Day | |
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![]() A new age dawned to Humanity, when on July 14th, 1789, Paris people, under Camille Desmoullins, took the Bastille; all fraternity and liberty wishes dominate the great men's hearts. | |
Montpellier City | |
| In Montepellier, south of France, district of Herault, where the echoes of the Big Revolution could be felt, lived the parents of that man, who would later become the greatest genius of Humanity. Felicidad Rosalie Boyer and Louis Auguste Comte who had got married on December 31st 1796. |
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The House in Which Augusto Comte was born | |
| On January 19th, 1798, in a house that still exists, in front of Saint Eulalie Church, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Xavier Comte was born, the philosopher who would astonish the world with his knowledge and virtues. |
Roslie consecrates her son to he social regeneration | |
| Auguste Comte's parents were realistc and catholic, and the year of 1798 brought them the birth of their first baby . Rosalie's mind was full of De Maitre thoughts "We have reached the most important religous period .... every man is obliged to bring a stone to the building... wait until science and religion could be united in one man's genious mind; the appearence of this man cannot be far, and may be he already exists; he will be famous and will conclude the 18th century..." |
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Auguste Comte's Family | |
| Auguste Comte's mother descended from a family that produced distinct doctors and his father was employed in the Treasury Department of Herault District . Auguste Comte had three brothers: Alice Marie Charlotte, born on June 23rd 1800; Ermance Louise Marie, who was born on August 24th 1801 and died three months later; and Adolph Vincent Louis Marie who was born in December 1802 and died in Martinique on September 23rd ,1821. |
Registration in Montepellier Lyceum | |
| When he was nine years old, Auguste Comte entered as a free pupil at the Monepellier Lyceum . During his whole life he regretted having been locked there, where he couldn't have that motherly affection and that domestic education, when it was more necessary. |
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