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Clotilde de Vaux
friend of Comte
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relationship with Comte
- In Auguste Comte: Life
…romantic and emotional experience with Clotilde de Vaux, who died the following year of tuberculosis. Comte idealized this sentimental episode, which exerted a considerable influence on his later thought and writings, particularly with regard to the role of women in the positivist society he planned to establish.
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