Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Rochefoucauld

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm 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 RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: 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 RochefoucauldMaximesPrint: 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 RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: 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 RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault...Virginia Woolf RochefoucauldunknownPrint: 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 RochefoucauldMaximesPrint: Book

 

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