Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (continued): #1: Clotilde de Vaux

Clotilde de Vaux, or Charlotte Clotilde Josephine Marie de Ficquelmont (1815–46), was the poet and short story writer who greatly inspired the philosopher Auguste Comte. She died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-three.

Bust of Clotilde de Vaux, rue Clotilde de Vaux, 11e.

Statue of Clotilde de Vaux incorporated into Compte's statue, Place de la Sorbonne, 6e.

Auguste Comte: Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise #5

 

'L'AMOUR POUR PRINCIPE ET L'ORDRE POUR BASE

LE PROGRÈS POUR BUT

AUGUSTE COMTE

ET

SES TROIS ANGES'

 

'AUGUSTE COMTE

FONDATEUR DE LA RELIGION DE L'HUMANITÉ

1798–1857

COURS DE PHILOSOPHIE POSITIVE 1830–1842

LA POLITIQUE POSITIVE 1848–1854

LA SYNTHÈSE POSITIVE 1856'

 

'A

CLOTILDE

DE VAUX

sa mere

spirituelle

 

L'EGLISE

POSITIVISTE

DU BRÉSIL'

 

Link to my earlier post on Père-Lachaise:

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Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise / Père Lachaise Cemetery

Clotilde de Vaux, 11th arrondissement, Paris

Just off boulevard Beaumarchais, not very far from the Place de la Bastille, is rue Clotilde de Vaux with a bust of the poet who fired Auguste Comte with such enthusiasm.

Oddly, there appears to be no inscription here.

A representation of Clotilde de Vaux is in the Place de la Sorbonne, to the viewer's left of the statue of August Comte.