La Rochefoucauld

[ la rawsh-foo-koh ]

noun

1. Fran·çois [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.

La Rochefoucauld

/ la rɔʃfuko /

noun

1. La RochefoucauldFrançois, Duc de16131680MFrenchWRITING: 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

Example Sentences

My favorite remains La Rochefoucauld, with his: “We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others.”

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Meantime, Coligny and La Rochefoucauld were advancing to meet him with the lite of their army and with all the artillery they had.

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Among the earliest victims of this day of carnage was Count de la Rochefoucauld.

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Both, however, lived in a period subsequent to that in which La Rochefoucauld wrote.

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So much difference is there between 'de la Rochefoucauld et de la Rochefoucauld.'

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It was La Rochefoucauld's Maximes; he resumed his seat, and began to read it with avidity.

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