Word: rochefoucauld
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...permanent 75." She reads a novel a day, still manages to take a personal interest in handsome young writers. Madame Simone is haughtily and heartily despised by the "Blue" faction (named for the hue of its blood), led by a scientist, mathematician and relative youngster, the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, 62. An oldtime suffragette and notorious pincher of sous (says a fellow juror: "She dresses in a splendid mink coat lined with rayon"), the Duchesse blazed in protest when her arch-antagonist grandly announced that she would accept no other Femina choice for 1957 than Le Carre four des Solitudes...
...certain that America does not want war, "but many Americans in all classes of society are capable of speaking of it with sangfroid, as a thing which can be envisaged. This more than anything else shows the difference which has grown up between Europe and America. As La Rochefoucauld said: 'One cannot look directly at either the sun or death.' That is how we Europeans consider...
...good week. The crowds he drew in the streets were still smaller than Ike's, but his major speeches packed auditoriums and were well received. He was in fine literary form, produced several new witticisms and an old limerick,* quoted Bernard Shaw, Artistotle Browning, and La Rochefoucauld. The political pattern of Stevenson's speeches was clear: he was mainly running against President Herbert Hoover and Robert Taft...
...when Painter John Trumbull introduced Jefferson to the British miniaturist Richard Cosway and his young and flirtatious wife. Jefferson was apparently struck by Maria at once, for he canceled all his engagements for the rest of the day. He even sent a messenger to the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld d'Anville. He was sorry, he said, but he could not make it for dinner. "Urgent dispatches" were keeping him at his desk...
...outstanding member of her circle was that famous and cynical aphorist, La Rochefoucauld, who is supposed to have been her lover, although he was by then old, blind and gouty. He is also supposed to have collaborated on The Princess of Cleves, but the book has nary a line of the brilliance and insight of the man who once wrote, "There are people who would never have fallen in love had they never heard love discussed...