Delphi Complete Works of François de La Rochefoucauld

by François de La Rochefoucauld, Delphi Classics (editor), J. W. Willis Bund (translator)

François de La Rochefoucauld was a seventeenth century moralist, who became the leading exponent of the ‘maxime’, a French literary form of epigram that expresses a harsh or paradoxical truth with brevity. He muses on honour, fate, friendship, love and the human tendency for self-delusion. His experience with the royal court during the Fronde influenced his thinking immensely. An exemplar of the older noblesse, La Rochefoucauld influenced numerous philosophers and men of letters, including Nietzsche, who sought to imitate his aphoristic style. This eBook presents La Rochefoucauld’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to La Rochefoucauld’s life and works
* Concise introduction to the moralist
* Both the Maxims and Memoirs of La Rochefoucauld, with individual contents tables
* Rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Features four biographies – discover La Rochefoucauld’s intriguing life



The Novels
Maxims (translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell, 1871)
The Memoirs of the Duke de La Rochefoucauld (Anonymous translation, 1683)

The Biographies
Rochefoucauld (1838) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
La Rochefoucauld (1909) by William Cleaver Wilkinson
François de La Rochefoucauld (1911) by George Saintsbury
La Rochefoucauld (1918) by Edmund Gosse

536 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2024

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François de la Rochefoucauld

François VI, duc de la Rochefoucauld, prince de Marcillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac.