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Listing for Author:
Rochefoucauld
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Century of Experience
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Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group
Author of Text
Title of Text
Form of Text
1800-1849
"The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser ...
Leslie Stephen
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales
Print
: Book
1850-1899
'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...
Somerset Maugham
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Maximes
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the suppositi...
Thomas Carlyle
Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Anch'io have been reading La Rochefaucould [sic] - and he has furnished me with an excellet Motto for my third Volume...
Sarah Harriet Burney
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales
Print
: Book
1900-1945
Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault...
Virginia Woolf
Rochefoucauld
unknown
Print
: Book
1700-1799
'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'.
George Crabbe
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Maximes
Print
: Book
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)