Comte is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word 'count' (Latin: comes); comtÃ© is the Gallo-Romance form of the word 'county' (Latin: comitatus). Comte may mean: a count in French, from Latin comes Auguste Comte (1798â1857), philosopher Louis Comte (1788â1859), magician RaphaÃ«l Comte (born 1979), Swiss politician.
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He was allowed one visitor a year for 30 minutes.
Nelson Mandela stands at the window of the cell in Robben Island prison where he was incarcerated for more than two decades. Photograph: Louise Gubb/Corbis In Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela described his Robben Island cell as tiny â I could walk from one side to the other in three steps. Since the island reopened as a museum in 1997, thousands of tourists have taken the 20-minute ferry ride from Cape Town.