X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Clotilde de Vaux


Clotilde de Vaux

In 1835, according to traditions of nobility, she had a marriage of convenience with a nobleman, Amédée de Vaux, tax perceptor of Méru.

Comte's "Religion of Humanity" was rather unsuccessful in France but has been very influential in Latin America, especially in Brazil (see above) and has inspired the rise of the "Church of Humanity" in England and its variant in New York City, both being extremely small today.

Religion of Humanity

The religion was developed after Comte's passionate platonic relationship with Clotilde de Vaux, whom he idealised after her death.



see also