| comte | (n) French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study, Syn. Auguste Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte |
| franche-comte | (n) a former province of eastern France |
| chateaubriand | (n) French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848), Syn. Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand |
| du barry | (n) courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793), Syn. Comtesse Du Barry, Marie Jeanne Becu |
| lesseps | (n) French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894), Syn. Ferdinand de Lesseps, Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps |
| mirabeau | (n) French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791), Syn. Comte de Mirabeau, Honore-Gabriel Victor Riqueti |
| rochambeau | (n) French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807), Syn. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau |
| sade | (n) French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814), Syn. Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade, de Sade |
| saxe | (n) a French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750), Syn. Hermann Maurice Saxe, Marshal Saxe, comte de Saxe |
