Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy was a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher who coined the term "ideology" and was the leading theorist of the idéologues.
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Jacques MacDonaldAlso won Order of Saint Louis
Fabian Gottlieb von BellingshausenAlso won Order of Saint Louis
Louis-Alexandre BerthierAlso won Order of Saint Louis
François Joseph Paul de GrasseAlso won Order of Saint Louis
René Antoine Ferchault de RéaumurAlso won Order of Saint Louis
Honoré III, Prince of MonacoAlso won Order of Saint LouisAbout this person
Country
FranceCategory
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1754 to 1836 · aged 81
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25 languages
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