François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
(1613-1680)
French author of maxims and memoirs
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François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary oeuvre published. His Maximes portray the callous nature of human conduct, with a cynical attitude towards putative virtue and avowals of affection, friendship, love, and loyalty. Leonard Tancock regards Maximes as "one of the most deeply felt, most intensely lived texts in French literature", with his "experience, his likes and dislikes, sufferings and petty spites ... crystallized into absolute truths."
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François de La Rochefoucauld 15 September 1613 Paris, France
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17 March 1680 (aged 66) Paris, France
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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