The Chapel of Humanity is the last remaining positivist temple in Europe. Built by the Brazilian positivists in 1903, its plans were designed by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, founder of positivism which vowed the building of a "great temple of humanity". He designed one of the greatest philosophical systems of the 19th century. After writing the monumental Cours de Philosophie Positive, he met Clotilde de Vaux in 1844 and maintained an intense correspondence with her during the year 1845, "the year without equal". But Clotilde died of tuberculosis in 1846, at his home on Rue Payenne. It is under his influence that Comte imagined a religion whose cult is humanity itself. Conceived as a secular temple, the chapel houses the element of this concrete cult in the form of a pantheon, taking up the positivist calendar which paid homage every day to the great men (scholars, thinkers, writers, poets…). The singularity of this place, very rarely open to the public, is an element of strik
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