Staying home from church with a tiny old edition of La Rochefoucauld, Gosse conceived this book. He writes elegant studies of three masters of the French maxim, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère and the gentler Vauvenargues, weighing their wit and their views of human nature, and closes with a wartime essay on the gallantry of France.
Graceful literary criticism for readers who love aphorism and the French classical age. Download the free EPUB.