comte

IPA: kˈɑmt

Examples of "comte" in Sentences

Note: The usual confusion between 'comte' and 'comte.'
"'But,' said the king, in astonishment, 'I believe the comte is your friend?'
(afterwards known as the comte de Chambord), grandson of Charles X., and when the king abdicated in 1830, Barrande accompanied the royal exiles to
Whereupon Manicamp, dreamy and absent as usual, answered, thinking that some one was asking him about De Guiche, "Thank you, the comte is a little better."
Then Charles X abdicated again, this time in favor of the son of the duchess de Berri, the Miracle Child, who was nine years old then and known as the comte de Chambord.
A descendant of a bastard of Henry II of France, Jeanne de Valois had after many affairs married a soi-disant so-called comte de Lamotte, and lived on a small pension which the king granted her.