Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac.
Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with
introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times.
By
J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell
Simpson Low, Son, and Marston, 188, Fleet Street. 1871.
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