La Rochefoucauld
[la rawsh-foo-koh] /la rɔʃ fuˈkoʊ/
noun
1.
François
[frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
/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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