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.
Mandela's Time in Prison. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, from November 1962 until February 1990. Formerly committed to nonviolent protest, he began to believe that armed struggle was the only way to achieve change.