Researching Louis Comte
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The name Louis means "Famous in Battle" and is of German origin.
Records of Louis Comte on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Louis Comte and the Comte Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Louis Comte
Louis Comte
Louis Apollinaire Christien Emmanuel Comte "The King's Conjurer" (born Geneva, June 22, 1788 – Rueil, November 25, 1859), also known simply as Comte, was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian magician, greatly admired by Robert-Houdin.He performed for Louis XVIII at the Tuileries Palace and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by Louis-Philippe. He was sometimes called "The Conjurer of the Three Kings" (Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis-Philippe). In 1814, Comte became the first conjurer on record to pull a white rabbit out of a top hat though this is also attributed to the much later John Henry Anderson.
Comte owned the Théâtre Comte passage des Panoramas of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and another one in the Passage Choiseul.
Source: Louis Comte, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaLouis le Comte
Louis le Comte (1655–1728), also Louis-Daniel Lecomte, was a French Jesuit who participated in the 1687 French Jesuit mission to China under Jean de Fontaney. He arrived in China on 7 February 1688.
He returned to France in 1691 as Procurator of the Jesuits. His Nouveau mémoire sur l'état présent de la Chine, which was published in Paris in 1696, caused great debate within the Chinese Rites Controversy.
By 1696, he had been appointed Mathematician to the King of France.
Source: Louis le Comte, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Comte
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