Person:François de La Rochefoucauld (writer) (1)

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François de La Rochefoucauld
b.15 Sep 1613
d.17 Mar 1680
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  1. François de La Rochefoucauld1613 - 1680
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  1. François (VII) _____, duc de La Rochefoucauld1634 - 1714
  2. Charles de La Rochefoucauld1635 - 1692
  3. Marie-Catherine de La Rochefoucauld1637 - 1711
  4. Henriette de La Rochefoucauld1638 - 1721
  5. Françoise de La Rochefoucauld1641 - 1708
  6. Henri-Achiles de La Rochefoucauld1642 - 1698
  7. Jean-Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld1646 - 1672
  8. Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld1655 - 1721
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Name François de La Rochefoucauld
Alt Name François VI _____, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Gender Male
Birth[1] 15 Sep 1613
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to Anne Geneviève de Bourbon
Marriage to Andrée de Vivonne, dame de La Châtaigneraie
Death[1] 17 Mar 1680
Reference Number? Q273708?


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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."

Born in Paris in 1613, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished seventeenth-century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac. His great-grandfather François III, count de La Rochefoucauld, was killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, being a Huguenot.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 François de La Rochefoucauld (writer), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Anselme (de Sainte-Marie). Histoire généalogique de la maison royale de France, des pairs et grands officiers de la Couronne. (Paris: la Compagnie des Libraires, 1726-1733)
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