Now all I know about this story is the Comte's name was mentioned in the Depeche with a photo of him with guides looking at the chateau of Najac. Unkindly the camera had caught him with a very snooty, haughty look on his face and it made me wonder if he was someone "special" I googled to find the Comte de Montalivet had a very important past history but could find nothing of recent history. It also got me thinking how important is the title
" comte" nowadays. I imagine there is some prestige in the title but no power.
Count (male) or Countess (female) is a title in European countries for a noble of varying status, but historically deemed to convey an approximate rank intermediate between the highest and lowest titles of nobility.[1] The word count came into English from the Frenchcomte, itself from Latin comes—in its accusative comitem—meaning "companion", and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor". The adjective form of the word is "comital". The British and Irish equivalent is an earl (whose wife is a "countess", for lack of anEnglish term). Alternative names for the "Count" rank in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as Graf in Germany and Hakushaku during the Japanese Imperial era.
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