La Rochefoucauld

[ larawsh-foo-koh ]

noun
  1. Fran·çois [frahn-swa], /frɑ̃ˈswa/, 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.

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British Dictionary definitions for La Rochefoucauld

La Rochefoucauld

/ (French la rɔʃfuko) /


noun
  1. 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

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