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La Rochefoucauld

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La Roche·fou·cauld  (lä rsh-f-k, -rôsh-), Duc François de 1613-1680.
French writer of moralistic aphorisms, published as Maxims (1665).
La Rochefoucauld (French) [la rɔʃfuko]
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(Biographies / La Rochefoucauld, François, Duc de (1613-1680) M, French, WRITING: writer) François (frɑ̃swa), Duc de La Rochefoucauld. 1613-80, French writer. His best-known work is Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (1665), a collection of epigrammatic and cynical observations on human nature
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Noun1.La Rochefoucauld - French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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