By Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld, E.H. Blackmore, A.M. Blackmore, Francine Giguère
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Deceptively short and insidiously effortless to learn, los angeles Rochefoucauld's wise, unflattering analyses of human habit have motivated writers, thinkers, and public figures as numerous as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle.
this can be the fullest number of los angeles Rochefoucauld's writings ever released in English, and comprises the 1st whole translation of the Réflexions diverses (Miscellaneous Reflections). This version contains a superb advent that surveys l. a. Rochefoucauld's existence, the genesis of his paintings, its shape and content material, and its effect, in addition to entire explanatory notes. A desk of other maxim numbers and an in depth and necessary index of subject matters support the reader to find any maxim quick and to understand the total diversity of l. a. Rochefoucauld's proposal on any of his favourite subject matters, reminiscent of self-love, vice and advantage, love and jealousy, friendship and self-interest, ardour and satisfaction
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During the years when he was working on his maxims, his reading may have consisted as much of fiction and drama as of philosophy or theology. But many of the factors that shaped La Rochefoucauld’s thought must lie in undocumented regions: in private conversations and public speeches; in the examples—positive and negative—set by the people around him; in a casual remark heard after a battle, in an oration at the funeral of a relative or a family friend. Such things may have been the most important influences of all; but they have left no written traces, and inevitably remain beyond our reach.
Some of La Rochefoucauld’s first readers already construed his maxims in a Jansenist sense. An unknown correspondent wrote to Madame de Schomberg in 1663 that the book was ‘a very powerful and ingenious satire on the corruption of nature by original sin … and on the malignity of the human spirit, which corrupts everything when it acts by itself without the Spirit of God…. ’ That, or something like it, is probably the majority opinion among present-day French La Rochefoucauld scholars, especially in the wake of Jean Lafond’s magisterial book La Rochefoucauld: Augustinisme et littérature (Paris, 1977), though within this camp there are significant points of disagreement: Laurence Plazenet, for instance, sees La Rochefoucauld as a much more thoroughgoing Augustinian than does Lafond.
The surviving documents suggest that there may have been several reasons for this. By 1660 Esprit had married, and some time later he left Paris, after which he had little direct contact with the others. Madame de Sablé began to feel that her own maxims were substantially inferior to La Rochefoucauld’s and were dwarfed by being juxtaposed with his. Perhaps, too, she may have been conscious of differences in outlook and philosophy (though there are fewer such differences than people used to think in the days when most of her writings were unpublished or unread).
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