La Rochefoucauld

[ la rawsh-foo-koh ]

noun

1. Fran·çois [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.

La Rochefoucauld

/ la rɔʃfuko /

noun

1. La RochefoucauldFrançois, Duc de16131680MFrenchWRITING: writer François (frɑ̃swa), Duc de La Rochefoucauld. 1613–80, French writer. His best-known work is Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (1665), a collection of epigrammatic and cynical observations on human nature

Example Sentences

Such a pensée fits with the French moralist tradition of Montaigne, Pascal and La Rochefoucauld, yet Baudelaire always regarded Edgar Allan Poe, whom he translated, as his spiritual brother.

From Washington Post

According to a 17th Century maxim by the Duc de La Rochefoucauld, “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”

From Washington Times

He can also be as worldly-wise as La Rochefoucauld: “It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer.”

From Washington Post

We don’t ask which of La Rochefoucauld’s friends made him jealous—the thought lands independent of its circumstance.

From The New Yorker

As Barthes remarks of La Rochefoucauld’s somewhat glib and static phrases, the subjects of the aphorism appear to be solid and stable, to exist eternally.

From The New Yorker