Maxims

François duc de La Rochefoucauld

Original title: Maximes

earliest edition we have, 1979 Grands Écrivains, 1987 184 pages

Grands écrivains choisis par l'Académie Goncourt

"The translation of this bilingual edition of La Rochefoucauld's Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (long known in English simply as the Maxims) is the first to appear in forty years. It is completely new and aims - unlike all previous versions - at being as literal as possible. This involves, among other things, rendering the same word - for example, amour-propre as "self-love" - as consistently throughout a...

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Editions we hold

Moral maxims edition · 2003 · University of Delaware Press · 218 pages
Maxims hardcover · 2001 · St. Augustines Press · 172 pages
Maximes edition · 1998 · Impr. nationale éditions · 414 pages
Maximes paperback · 1991 · LGF · 381 pages
Maximes edition · 1987 · Grands Écrivains · 184 pages · 9782850185328
Maximes edition · 1983 · Garnier · 682 pages
Maximes edition · 1983 · Garnier frères · 682 pages
Maxims edition · 1979 · Penguin Books · 126 pages

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