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François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

W.G. Moore, La Rochefoucauld: His Mind and Art (1969); Philip E. Lewis, La Rochefoucauld: The Art of Abstraction (1977); Vivien Thweatt, La Rochefoucauld and the Seventeenth-Century Concept of the Self (1980); and Henry C. Clark, La Rochefoucauld and the Language of Unmasking in Seventeenth-Century France (1994).

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First paragraph modernization. Mar 20, 2024
Anniversary information added. Sep 11, 2023
Invalidated site: Literary Destinations - Biography of ​François La Rochefoucauld. Feb 10, 2020
Add new Web site: Literary Destinations - Biography of ​François La Rochefoucauld. May 09, 2019
Article revised. May 19, 2015
Added photograph. Mar 24, 2009
Media added. Feb 25, 2009
Added new Web site: charon.sfsu.edu - Biography of Duc de La Rochefoucauld. Aug 18, 2008
Bibliography revised and updated. Aug 13, 2007
Added new Web site: Pegasos - Biography of François La Rochefoucauld. May 17, 2007
Article revised. May 29, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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