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Comte was educated by private tutors until he was nine years old and later attended the local lycée in Montpellier. In 1814, at age 16, he was admitted to the prestigious École Polytechnique in Paris but was forced to leave two years later, when the institution was closed for political reasons by the Bourbon monarchy.

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