françois, sixth duc de

La Roche·fou·cauld

[la rawsh-foo-koh]
noun
Fran·çois [frahn-swa] , 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
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La Rochefoucauld (French la rɔʃfuko) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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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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