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.
A: Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, 18 of which were spent at the infamously cruel Robben Island Prison in South Africa, where he was held from 1964 - 1982. Mandela was released from imprisonment in 1990 despite having initially been handed a life sentence.