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Auguste Comte
1798 – 1857
French

Philosopher and sociologist. He is often seen as the founder, or at least a strong proponent of, Positivism, a philosophy which seeks to elevate science as the only source of truth, but which by making science into a kind of ideology, paradoxically risks becoming unscientific, or even pseudo-scientific.

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1840–1902Émile Zola
1802–1898Charles Villiers
1844–1896Paul Verlaine
1828–1905Jules Verne
1805–1859Alexis de Tocqueville
1767–1820Jean Tallien
1754–1838Charles Talleyrand
1828–1893Hippolyte Taine
1839–1907Sully-Prudhomme
1783–1842Stendhal
1847–1922Georges Sorel
1748–1836Emmanuel Sieyes
1804–1876George Sand
1804–1869Charles Sainte-Beuve
1760–1825Claude Saint-Simon
1740–1814Marquis de Sade
1854–1891Arthur Rimbaud
1777–1849Julie Récamier
1823–1892Ernest Renan
1809–1865Pierre Proudhon
1856–1951Philippe Petain
1732–1804Jacques Necker
1769–1821Napoleon I
1822–1861Henri Murger
1801–1881Paul Littré
1857–1939Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
1782–1854Felicité Lamennais
1744–1829Jean Lamarck
1757–1834Marie-Joseph Lafayette
1827–1912Père Hyacinthe
1802–1885Victor Hugo
1816–1882Joseph Gobineau
1848–1903Paul Gauguin
1772–1837Charles Fourier
1821–1880Gustave Flaubert
1809–1871Charles Delescluze
1808–1879Honoré Daumier
1857–1926Émile Coué
1768–1848François Chateaubriand
1788–1856Étienne Cabet
1755–1826Jean Brillat-Savarin
1824–1880Paul Broca
1809–1852Louis Braille
1802–1887Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
1805–1881Auguste Blanqui
1811–1882Louis Blanc
1753–1809Jean Pierre Blanchard
1857–1911Alfred Binet
1771–1802Xavier Bichat
1748–1822Claude Berthollet
1844–1879St. Bernadette of Lourdes
1732–1799Pierre Beaumarchais
1821–1867Charles Baudelaire
1755–1829Paul Barras
1799–1850Honoré de Balzac
1727–1806Michel Adanson