The Maxims (Bilingual Edition: French Text, with a Revised English Translation)

by François de La Rochefoucauld

Of all the French epigrammatic writers, La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) is at once the most widely known and the most distinguished. Voltaire said: "One of the works that most largely contributed to form the taste of the [French] nation, and to diffuse a spirit of justice and precision, is the collection of maxims by Fran?ois, duc de La Rochefoucauld; though there is scarcely more than one truth running through the book-that 'self-love is the motive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2957404826
• ISBN13: 9782957404827
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Par Quatre Chemins
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"