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François de La Rochefoucauld

1613 - 1680

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François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 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 œuvre published. His Maximes portrays 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 ... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François de La Rochefoucauld has received more than 36,642 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). François de La Rochefoucauld is the 263rd most popular writer (down from 235th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from France (down from 271st in 2019) and the 49th most popular French Writer.

François de la Rochefoucauld is most famous for his maxims on human nature.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, François de La Rochefoucauld ranks 263 out of 7,302. Before him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sallust, Johannes V. Jensen, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Vladimir Mayakovsky. After him are Jami, Amos Oz, Salman Rushdie, Primo Levi, Arthur Miller, and Anna Komnene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1613, François de La Rochefoucauld ranks 1. After him are Gerrit Dou, André Le Nôtre, Claude Perrault, John George II, Elector of Saxony, Mattia Preti, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Khushal Khattak, and Luisa de Guzmán. Among people deceased in 1680, François de La Rochefoucauld ranks 3. Before him are Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Shivaji. After him are Athanasius Kircher, Nicolas Fouquet, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Jan Swammerdam, Willem Claesz. Heda, Ferdinand Bol, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, and Emperor Go-Mizunoo.

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In France

Among people born in France, François de La Rochefoucauld ranks 306 out of 6,770. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), François Mauriac (1885), Jacques de Molay (1243), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), John I of France (1316), and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684). After him are René Goscinny (1926), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Constantine II (316), Chlothar I (498), and Raymond Poincaré (1860).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François de La Rochefoucauld ranks 49. Before him are Prosper Mérimée (1803), Frédéric Mistral (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Germaine de Staël (1766), François Mauriac (1885), and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749). After him are Alphonse Daudet (1840), Paul Valéry (1871), Colette (1873), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), and Antonin Artaud (1896).

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