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
La Rochefoucauld in American English
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Duc Fran‧ˈçois‧ de (fʀɑ̃ˈswadə) 1613-80; Fr. moralist & writer of maxims