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About Les Caractères
La Bruyère's 1688 moral portraits of court society under Louis XIV — 16 chapters of maxims, observations, and character sketches satirizing the court, the city, and the human types produced by wealth and power. Giton and Phédon, the parallel portraits of the prosperous and the poor, are the most cited passages in French satire.
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