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Francois La Rochefoucauld Biography
François La Rochefoucauld, (1613–1680), sixth Duke of, Prince of Marcillac. "A French epigrammatic moralist, born in Paris, Dec. 15, 1613. He is a type of the cynical satirist of human nature." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIII, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 573-574.)
C. A.Sainte-Beuve, Translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Part 1 (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904) 130.
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