Talk:François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
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[edit] This article is crap
Whoever wrote the bulk of this article is much more concerned with showing how smart they are than creating a helpful article; the whole damn thing needs to be rewritten. I'd do it myself, but I don't actually know anything about La Rochefoucauld. Someone please do some work here. Czoller (talk) 15:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Religion
He was a Freethinker, and atheist.
This page seems to be translated straight from the French version. As a result I see French constructions that don't flow very well in English ex "La Rochefoucauld was somewhat neglected in the matter of education, at least of the scholastic kind." It sounds fine in French but no one I know talks in English like that. I recommend that someone rewrites this to flow better. Te_aute
In French his name is spelled "de La", with an upper case L, and sorted alphabetically under L (La Rochefoucauld, François de). This English Wikipedia article spells his name "de la" with a lower case L. Is this by design, or just by mistake? The name is mentioned several times in the article using an upper case L.
- I've always seen it with a capital "L". Antandrus 03:49, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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- Moved. --Smack 21:27, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Birthdate
- See also. [[de:Diskussion:François de La Rochefoucauld|diskussion on German wikipedia]
There seem to be two different birthdates floating around in sources. Britannica 1911, current claims September 15, while two German encyclopedias (Brockhaus 1908, dtv 1992) say December 15. Anyone know what is correct? andy 12:09, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Suggested spot for revision
"was the greatest maxim writer of France, one of her best memoir writers, and perhaps the most complete and accomplished representative of her ancient nobility."
1. 'the greatest maxim writier of France' strikes one as non-neutral. Perhaps we should consider revising to remove some subjectivity.
2. La Rochefoucauld was a man, not a woman. Unless I read that wrong, we should fix that.
Her refers to French, if I'm right.
[edit] Violation of neutral policy
Read the section on La Rochefoucald's works - the author of the section seems to be so enamoured with La Rochefoucauld that he forgets to say anything meaningful about the philosophy behind the works and instead heaps excessive praise upon its style. Worthless.
- We don't need five tags that say virtually the same thing. I'm taking some out. If you find it so offensive, why don't you improve it? ImperfectlyInformed | {talk - contribs} 07:00, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Pompous style that masks sketchy content
This article is written in a pompous style. The complex sentence structure seems like it was translated from a flowery biography written two hundred years ago, and that the translator sought to preserve the original writer's style rather than to render it in good English. When you finally distill these complex sentences down to their essence, you find that there isn't much left. It's basically obfuscatory writing.
