François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld was a seventeenth century moralist, who became the leading exponent of the ‘maxime’, a French literary form of epigram that expresses a harsh or paradoxical truth with brevity. He muses on honour, fate, friendship, love and the human tendency for self-delusion. His experience with the royal court during the Fronde influenced his thinking immensely. An exemplar of the older noblesse, La Rochefoucauld influenced numerous philosophers and men of letters, including Nietzsche, who sought to imitate his aphoristic style. This eBook presents La Rochefoucauld’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to La Rochefoucauld’s life and works * Concise introduction to the moralist * Both the Maxims and Memoirs of La Rochefoucauld, with individual contents tables * Rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Features four biographies – discover La Rochefoucauld’s intriguing life CONTENTS: The Novels Maxims (translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell, 1871) The Memoirs of the Duke de La Rochefoucauld (Anonymous translation, 1683) The Biographies Rochefoucauld (1838) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley La Rochefoucauld (1909) by William Cleaver Wilkinson François de La Rochefoucauld (1911) by George Saintsbury La Rochefoucauld (1918) by Edmund Gosse
