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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 34,497 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). François de La Rochefoucauld is the 235th most popular writer (down from 212th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from France (down from 246th in 2019) and the 42nd 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 235 out of 5,755Before him are Al-Masudi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Lu Xun, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Anna Wintour. After him are Anna Akhmatova, Philip K. Dick, Coen brothers, Torquato Tasso, Doris Lessing, and Nelly Sachs.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, François de La Rochefoucauld ranks 271 out of 6,011Before him are Josquin des Prez (1450), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Jules Massenet (1842), and Désirée Clary (1777). After him are Camille Claudel (1864), John the Fearless (1371), Jean Gabin (1904), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), Gabriel Fauré (1845), and Henry I of France (1008).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François de La Rochefoucauld ranks 42Before him are François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Colette (1873), Pierre Corneille (1606), Maurice Leblanc (1864), and Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894). After him are Germaine de Staël (1766), Frédéric Mistral (1830), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Françoise Sagan (1935), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), and Paul Valéry (1871).