The final attempt to make use of the colossus came from the Comte de Chambord but after the Comte died in 1883, the château was left to his sister's heirs, the titular Dukes of Parma, then resident in Austria.

Meanwhile, his wife stayed at Antibes, where she had his children, the first of whom died in childhood: Marie Anne Elisabeth ( July 8, 1790-March 18, 1794 ), Jacques Prosper, 2nd Prince d ' Essling July 3, 1818 ( June 25, 1793-May 13, 1821 ), unmarried and without issue, Victoire Thècle ( September 28, 1794-March 28, 1857 ), married on September 12, 1814 Charles, Comte Reille ( Antibes, September 1, 1775-March 4, 1860 ), and François Victor, 2nd Duc de Rivoli, 3rd Prince d ' Essling ( April 2, 1799-April 16, 1863 ), married on April 19, 1823 Anne Debelle ( 1802-January 28, 1887 ), and had issue.

His wife Jane died in 1976 and the following year Lord Clark married Nolwen de Janzé-Rice, the ex-wife of Edward Rice, and daughter of the Count of Janzé alias Comte Frederic de Janze ( a well-known French racing driver of the 1920s and 1930s ) by his wife Alice Silverthorne ( better known by her married names as Alice de Janzé or Alice de Trafford ), a wealthy American heiress resident in Kenya.

* Louis-Philippe, Comte de Paris ( 1838-1894 ): French Orléanist monarchists referred to him as " Louis-Philippe II ", and then later when Henri, comte de Chambord died, he was recognized as the royalist heir by almost all French monarchists, and was occasionally known as Philippe VII.

** Comte Charles Walewski ( 1848 – 1916 ), married Félice Douay ( died 1952 ); no children.

* February 17-Auguste Comte, French philosopher ( died 1857 )

* September 7-Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher ( died 1788 )

Provence retained its formal independence until 1480, when the last Comte de Provence, René I of Naples, died and left the Comté to his nephew, Charles du Maine, who in turn left it to Louis XI of France.

On that roadstead his able second-in-command, H .- A., Comte de Sade, a maternal cousin of the infamous ' Marquis ' de Sade, died at age 69.

Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d ' Artagnan () ( c. 1611 – 25 June 1673 ) served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War.

* September 7-Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist ( died 1788 )

After Louis XVII died in 1795, the Comte de Provence became pretender himself, as Louis XVIII.

Comte Lanjuinans died in Paris.

She was pregnant when he died a year later, after an unremarkable reign ; uncertain of how to arrange the succession ( the two main claimants being Louis ' daughter Jeanne – the suspected bastard – and Louis ' younger brother Philip ( 1293 – 1322 ), Comte de Poitou ), the French set up a regency under the Comte de Poitou, and hoped that the child would be a boy.

Eventually, it was decided based on several legal reasons ( later reinterpreted as Salic Law ) that Jeanne was ineligible to inherit the throne, which passed to the Comte de Poitou, who became Philip V. He, however, produced no surviving sons with his wife, Joan, Countess of Burgundy ( 1291 – 1330 ), who had been cleared of her charges of adultery ; thus, when he died in 1322, the crown passed to his brother, Charles ( 1294 – 1328 ), Comte de La Marche, who became Charles IV ; the County of Burgundy, brought to the Capetians by the marriage of Joan and Philip V, remained with Joan, and ceased to be part of the royal domains.

* Charles d ' Albret, Comte de Dreux ( died 1415 ), 1402 – 1411

* Charles d ' Albret, Comte de Dreux ( died 1415 ), 1413 – 1415

Dying without male issue, the Earl of York left a daughter, Heiress Hawise ( died 11 March 1214 ) who succeeded her father in the Comte of Aumale and Lordship of Holderness.

Géraud Michel de Pierredon, Comte de Pierredon ( died 17 November 2006 ) was the Ambassador of the Order of Malta to France, and was appointed to the post in 1982.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

During his Paris years, between 1824 and 1829, Rossini created the comic opera Le Comte Ory and Guillaume Tell ( William Tell ).

A temporary Third Republic was established, while monarchists waited for the comte de Chambord to die and for the succession to pass to the Comte de Paris, who was willing to accept the tricolour.

In Paris, the Comte and his wife lodged in the Luxembourg Palace, while the rest of the royal family stayed in the Tuileries Palace.

He cast about for a suitable venue and found the Théâtre des Jeunes Élèves, known also as the Salle Choiseul or the Salle Comte, in central Paris.

After attending the Lycée Joffre and then the University of Montpellier, Comte was admitted to the École Polytechnique in Paris.

Following his return to Montpellier, Comte soon came to see unbridgeable differences with his Catholic and Monarchist family and set off again for Paris, earning money by small jobs.

John Kells Ingram, an adherent of Comte, visited him in Paris in 1855.

His apartment from 1841 – 1857 is now conserved as the Maison d ' Auguste Comte and is located at 10 rue Monsieur-le-Prince, in Paris ' 6th arrondissement.

* Jacques Muglioni, Auguste Comte: un philosophe pour notre temps, Kimé, Paris, 1995

On arriving in Paris, Deane at once opened negotiations with the Comte de Vergennes who was the French Foreign Minister.

The death of the Duke of Orleans in 1842 was a blow to Barrot's party, which sought to substitute the regency of the Duchess of Orleans for that of the Duke of Nemours in the event of the succession of the Comte de Paris.

He returned to France, floated the Nanto-Bordelaise company, and set sail for New Zealand with a group of French and German families aboard the ship Comte de Paris, with the intention of forming a French colony on a French South Island of New Zealand.

Arab nationalism was influenced by 19th Century mainland European thinkers, notably conservative German philosophers such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte of the Königsberg University Kantian school, and French Positivists such as Auguste Comte and professor Ernest Renan of the Collège de France in Paris.

* Henri, Comte de Paris ( 1908-1999 )

* Henri, Comte de Paris, Duc de France ( born 1933 )

His genealogical heir was Juan, Count of Montizón, but most legitimists recognised Philippe, Comte de Paris as heir to the comte de Chambord, because King Philip V of Spain, ancestor of the Count of Montizon, had renounced his rights to the French throne.

Thus, the Comte de Paris is presently the Orléanist pretender to the French throne.

See: Comte d ' Ideville, Le Maréchal Bugeaud ( Paris, 1881 – 1882 ).

In May 1832 he hastened from Paris to see the duchess of Berry on her landing in the south of France for the purpose of organizing an insurrection in favour of her son, the duke of Bordeaux, since known as the Comte de Chambord.

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.

However, the color green was also associated with the Comte d ' Artois, the reactionary and conservative brother of the King, and the cockades therefore were quickly replaced by others in the traditional colors of Paris: red and blue.

After exchanging notes and conferences in committee rooms and drawing-rooms, Philippe, Comte de Paris, the representative of the Orléanists, sought an interview with Henri, Comte de Chambord at Frohsdorff, stating that he came not only to pay his respects to the head of his house but also to " accept his principle " ( though Orléanists sometimes assert that this statement was given with mental reservations ).