sometimes left untranslated as vicomte [vi.kɔ̃t]. The word viscount comes from Old French visconte (Modern French: vicomte), itself from Medieval Latin...

The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də vo lə vikɔ̃t]) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres...

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard [lə vikɔ̃t də bʁaʒəlɔn u diz‿ɑ̃ ply taʁ]) is a novel...

from March 23, 1782. It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two amoral lovers-turned-rivals who amuse themselves by ruining...

Ouilly-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [uji lə vikɔ̃t] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Communes...

Ferdinand Marie, Comte de Lesseps (French: [də lesɛps]; 19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal...

The Château de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte is a ruined castle in the commune of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in the Manche département of France. The castle...

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French...

Alexandre François Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais (28 May 1760 – 23 July 1794) was a French politician and general of the French Revolution. He was the...

Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...

Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. Raoul is a viscount...

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 1611 – 27 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne [ty.ʁɛn], was a French general and one of...

Henri, vicomte de Bornier (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də bɔʁnje]; 25 December 1825, Lunel – 28 January 1901, Paris) was a French poet and dramatist....

Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gay, 1st Viscount of Martignac (20 June 1778  – 3 April 1832) was a moderate royalist French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration...

Delphine de Girardin (24 January 1804 – 29 June 1855), pen name Vicomte Delaunay, was a French writer. de Girardin was born in Aachen, and christened...

Jacques-Marie, vicomte Cavaignac (French pronunciation: [ʒak maʁi də kavɛɲak]; 1773–1855) was a French general. He was the brother of Jean Baptiste Cavaignac...

Laurent Vicomte (25 March 1956 – 9 August 2020) was a French comic book author. Despite his relatively small quantity of series published, he won numerous...

novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He is a highly fictionalised...

Charles Alexandre de Calonne (20 January 1734 – 30 October 1802), titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was a French statesman, best known for being Louis...

Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles, painted by Gilbert Stuart, 1798. Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sovœʁ lə vikɔ̃t]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. It is...

Marie-Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé (25 February 1848 – 29 March 1910) was a French diplomat, Orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist...

medicine (p. 80). CRC Press. ISBN 9780203014189. Retrieved 12 March 2012. "Vicomte Ilya Prigogine (Obituary, The Telegraph)". The Daily Telegraph. 5 June...

Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec (1485 – 15 August 1528) was a French military leader. As Marshal of France, he commanded the campaign to conquer Naples...

(titular Duke of Bouillon, jure uxoris, comte de Montfort et Negrepelisse, vicomte de Turenne, Castillon, et Lanquais) (28 September 1555 – 25 March 1623)...

Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d'Archiac (24 September 1802 – 24 December 1868) was a French geologist and paleontologist. He was...

titled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask. In the four-volume edition, the novels are titled The Vicomte de Bragelonne...

French nobility or royalty. However, some fine châteaux, such as Vaux-le-Vicomte, were built by the essentially high-bourgeois—people but recently ennobled:...

Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (English: Memoirs from Beyond the Grave) is the memoir of François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), collected and published posthumously...

Gaston François Marie, Viscount Eyskens (1 April 1905 – 3 January 1988) was a Christian democratic politician and prime minister of Belgium. He was also...