La Rochefoucauld
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La Rochefoucauld can refer to:

People:
  • Antoine de La Rochefoucauld
    Antoine de La Rochefoucauld
    Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld was an artist, patron and art collector as well as a proponent of Rosicrucianism in France at the end of the 19th century.-Life:...

  • Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld (1862–1959), 19th century Rosicrucian
  • François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
    François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
    François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. The view of human conduct his writings describe has been summed up by the words "everything is reducible to the motive of self-interest", though the term "gently cynical" has also been applied...

     (1613–1680), French author
  • François de La Rochefoucauld (Cardinal)
    François de La Rochefoucauld (Cardinal)
    François de La Rochefoucauld was a French Cardinal and an "important figure in the French Counter Reformation church".-Life:...

     (1558–1645), French cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
    François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
    François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt was a French social reformer.-Early life:...

     (1747–1827), social reformer
  • François de La Rochefoucauld, marquis de Montendre (1672–1739)
  • Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
    Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
    Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt , the third son of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, was a French nobleman who, during Napoléon's brief 1815 return to power, fled to Switzerland and tried to organise a volunteer army in support of the restored...

     (1779–1863), politician
  • Maxime de la Rochefoucauld
    Maxime de la Rochefoucauld
    Maxime De La Rochefoucauld is the stage name of Montreal-based musician and performance artist Maxime Rioux.Rioux is best known for his compositions produced on musical instruments that are homemade and often built specifically for a single live performance...

     (born 1959), Canadian musician


Places:
  • La Rochefoucauld, Charente
    La Rochefoucauld, Charente
    La Rochefoucauld is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.It lies very close to the line which delineated occupied France and Vichy France during World War II.-Etymology:...

    , a commune in the Charente
    Charente
    Charente is a department in southwestern France, in the Poitou-Charentes region, named after the Charente River, the most important river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac, are sited.-History:Charente is one of the original...

    département in France
  • Château de la Rochefoucauld

Castles associated with the Maison de La Rochefoucauld

  • Chateau de La Rochefoucauld, La Rochefoucauld (department)
  • Château de Verteuil, Verteuil sur Charente
  • Chateau La Roche-Guyon, La Roche-Guyon
  • Chateau de Montmirail, Montmirail
  • Castle Versainville, Versainville
  • Esclimont Castle, Saint-Symphorien-le-Chateau
  • Castle Combreux, Combreux
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