| MALDOROR | Les Chants de ?, 19th-century poetic novel by the Comte de Lautreamont |
| ANTHEM | Cameroon's "Chant de Ralliement," e.g. |
| ATHOS | The Comte de la Fere, familiarly |
| BALZAC | Honore de ---, 19th Century French novelist and playwright who wrote La Comedie Humaine (6) |
| MIRABEAU | Comte de ___, French revolutionary statesman instrumental in the National Assembly of 1789-91 (8) |
| XVIII | Louis called the "Comte de Provence" |
| EMIGRE | The Comte d'Artois was one for a change of regime |
| ORELLANA | Francisco de ?, 16th-century Spanish explorer who completed the first known navigation of the entire length of the Amazon River |
| IMAGISM | Early 20th century poetic movement (7) |
| CHEESE | Food, such as Comte or Vacherin Mont d'Or, made in fruitieres from the milk of French Simmental cows; or, the idiomatic opposite of "chalk" (6) |
| YONNE | A department of North Central France, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region (5) |
| LACLOS | Pierre Choderlos de ?, French author of four-volume novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (6) |
| TORQUEMADA | Tomas de ?, 15th-century Dominican friar; first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition (10) |
| POSITIVISM | Philosophical system originated by Auguste Comte (1798-1857) that rejects metaphysics and theology in favour of empirical experience (10) |
| THEORY | Guess what's missing from Rossini's Le Comte? |
| BESANCON | Capital of Franche-Comte region in north-east France (8) |
| SANGFROID | What Comte Dracula ordered on a hot day, with aplomb? (4-5) |
| MONTCALM | Louis-Joseph de ?, French general killed by British forces under James Wolfe in Quebec in 1759 (8) |
| VLAMINCK | Maurice de ?, French painter whose works include 1906's The Blue House (8) |
| DUC | Peer ranked above a comte |
