The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Name: The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère
Author: Jean de La Bruyère

by Jean de La Bruyère

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Gary Rees, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2014-08-19

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Public domain in the USA.

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Characters and characteristics Character sketches -- Early works to 1800

About the author

Jean de La Bruyère

1645–1696

Best known for a sharp, witty portrait of human nature, this 17th-century French moralist turned close observation into memorable prose. His writing is compact, elegant, and surprisingly modern in the way it notices vanity, ambition, and everyday behavior.

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