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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte, drawing by Tony Toullion, 19th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Caroline Massin was the wife of the French philosopher Auguste Comte. The couple married in 1825, but their marriage was characterized as unhappy, eventually leading to their separation in 1842.1