[ noun ] French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study <noun.person>
The lawyers, Jacques Verges and Antoine Comte, also told reporters that their client had nothing to do with last week's crash of a French airliner en route from N'Djamena, Chad, to Paris.
So with Georges Clemenceau. Born in 1841 under France's last king, he was raised as a disciple of Pascal, Michelet and Comte; he became mayor of Montmartre during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune.