Two French Moralists: La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyere (Major European Authors Series)

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Among seventeenth-century classical French writers La Rochefoucauld owes his renown to his maxims and La Bruyere to his stylised portraits, or caracteres. This book starts from the basic assumption that both writers were 'moralists', and as such w...