The Lover and the Beloved

What do François de la Rochefoucauld, the 17th century French philosopher, and Winston Churchill, the remarkable British statesman, have in common?

As far as I can tell,

just me.

(Though they were both pretty good at pithy aphorisms.)

I recently came across a reference to La Rochefoucauld on p. 261 of the second volume of a massive biography of Winston Chur…