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5 unusual facts about La Rochefoucauld


Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld

The House de La Rochefoucauld is one of most famous families of French nobility, whose origins date back to the first Foucauld residing on the rock (de la Roche), with official evidence of nobility in 1019 and since the 13th century known as La Rochefoucauld (in the Charente département).

Galeazzo Maria Alvise Emanuele Ruspoli, 2nd Duke of Morignano

Donna Ginevra dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, September 15, 1962 –), married in Rome, January 16, 1988 Frédéric Philippe Marie François, Comte de La Rochefoucauld (Paris, November 20, 1955 –), by whom she had two daughters and a son.

Jacques de Serisay

Jacques de Serisay (1594 in Paris – November 1653 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente) was a French poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française from 1634 to 11 January 1638 where he was the first occupant of seat three.

La Rochefoucauld, Charente

Galleries and a grand staircase, the latter attributed to designs by Leonardo da Vinci, were added in 1520.

Marie-Claire Restoux

Marie-Claire Restoux (born April 9, 1968 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente) is a French judoka, world champion and olympic champion.


Raul Mesquita

Also in 2008, Sílabo Publishers published his Translation, Preface and Footnotes of the Maximes et Réflexions Morales, by La Rochefoucauld.


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Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye

D'Anville was born on 17 August 1709, the son of Louis de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Roye, a distant cousin of the Dukes of La Rochefoucauld and Marthe Ducasse.

Laura Margherita Mazzarini

Mazzarini lived with the rest of the family, first at Aix-en-Provence, then in the palace of her brother and finally settled at the court of Queen Anne of Austria, in the apartment of the Marquise de La Rochefoucauld.

Tadeusz Fuss-Kaden

Notable buyers of his paintings included playwright Samuel Beckett, pianist Artur Rubinstein, art historian Will Grohmann and entrepreneurs Burton Tremaine and John Delorean as well as collections in New York United States Galerie BING and Weintraub and Richard Sussman and La Rochefoucauld Duc D´Estrées.