. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxims are found in every language,but few are the authors that have de-voted their genius entirely to this formof expression. Frangois de Marcillac, Due de Rochefoucauld(1630-1680), is the most famous writer of maxims of anycountry or age. His celebrated Reflections and Opinions,or Moral Maxims were penned by him after he had passedthrough the winds of gallantry and the storms of the Fronde,and had retired, in political disgrace, to his country one of the noblest peers of France, and
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxims are found in every language,but few are the authors that have de-voted their genius entirely to this formof expression. Frangois de Marcillac, Due de Rochefoucauld(1630-1680), is the most famous writer of maxims of anycountry or age. His celebrated Reflections and Opinions,or Moral Maxims were penned by him after he had passedthrough the winds of gallantry and the storms of the Fronde,and had retired, in political disgrace, to his country one of the noblest peers of France, and zealous for thenobility, he had unsheathed his sword against the party ofMazarin, had fought in the streets of Paris, and had dis-tinguished himself by almost reckless bravery. In the affairsof the heart he had been successively the cavalier of threeof Pariss reigning queens of beauty and fashion: Chevreuse, Mme. de Longueville, and Mme. de La was thus well versed in both the love and war of his was himself a chiH of his age, and his Maxims werethe n
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