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…