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François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published.
François XII de La Rochefoucauld (1747–1827) (son of preceding), 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, created 1st Duke of Liancourt in 1765 and inherited the Duke of La Rochefoucauld title from his cousin in 1792; [d] married Félicité-Sophie de Lannion in 1764.
La Rochefoucauld (French pronunciation: [la ʁɔʃfuko]; Limousin: La Ròcha Focaud) is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois .
Alexandre, comte de La Rochefoucauld (1767–1841), married Adélaïde de Pyvart de Chastullé, a San Domingo heiress allied to the Beauharnais family.Mme de La Rochefoucauld became dame d'honneur to the empress Josephine, and their eldest daughter married Francesco Borghese [fr], a brother-in-law of Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese.
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer) (1613–1680), French author François de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandre (1672–1739), Field Marshal of the British Army François Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld (1747–1827), French social reformer
After his father was killed at Saint-Yrieix by the Catholic League on 15 March 1591, he inherited the title Count of La Rochefoucauld which he remained until 22 April 1622, [4] when King Louis XIII [5] raised his county of La Rochefoucauld to a dukedom with the influence of his mother Queen Marie de' Medici having attended her coronation on 14 May 1610.
François de La Rochefoucauld, 1st Duke of La Rochefoucauld; François de La Rochefoucauld, 3rd Duke of La Rochefoucauld; François de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of La Rochefoucauld; Frédéric Gaëtan de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis of Liancourt; François de La Rochefoucauld, 8th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
La Rochefoucauld was born on 4 February 1874 at the Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville at 47 Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. [1] He was the youngest son of Sosthène II de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of Doudeauville, and, his second wife, Princess Marie Georgine Sophie