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COLLECTED MAXIMS
AND OTHER REFLECTIONS
F L R, a member of a prominent French
aristocratic family, was born in Paris in . He was married at the age of
and took part in his first military campaign the following year. For the next
quarter of a century he participated actively in military life, supporting the
interests of the hereditary French aristocracy not only against foreign armies,
but at times also against the king and his chief minister (Richelieu under
Louis XIII, Mazarin under Louis XIV). When Louis XIV finally gained
control of Paris in , La Rochefoucauld retired from public life. In –
he began pose the sayings published in as Réflexions ou Sentences
et Maximes morales (Moral Reflections or Sententiae and Maxims). The work
was carefully revised several times, its fifth and final authorized edition
appearing in . La Rochefoucauld died in Paris in . Many further
maxims, and the een essays now known as the Réflexions diverses (Miscel-
laneous Reflections), were published posthumously from his manuscripts.
E. H. and A. M. B and F G have translated
Twelve Plays by Alfred de Musset and e Sand’s edies and The
Devil’s Pool and Other Stories. E. H. and A. M. Blackmore have also edited
and translated nine other volumes of French literature, including, in Oxford
World’s Classics, Six French Poets of the eenth Century, The Essential
Victor Hugo, and Stéphane Mallarmé’s Collected Poems and Other Verse. Their
work has been awarded the American Literary Translators’ Association Prize
and the Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize for Literary Transla-
tion. Their other publications include literary criticism and studies in psy-
cholinguistics and grammatical awareness.
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