LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANOIS VI, DUKE (DUC) DE

born Sept. 15, 1613, Paris, Fr. died March 16/17, 1680, Paris also called (until 1650) Prince De Marcillac French classical author who had been one of the most active rebels of the Fronde before he became the leading exponent of the maxime, a French literary form of epigram that expresses a harsh or paradoxical truth with brevity.