Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696) was a French man of letters and moralist of the classical period. His only work, "Les Caractères" (1688), captures the psychological, social, and moral pro...
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Jean de La Bruyère is known as the author of a single masterpiece, Les Caractères de Théophraste, traduits du grec, avec Les Caractères ou les mours de ce siècle (Th...
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