'The Saboteur' combines heroic World War II history with thriller dramatics
Dec 14, 2017
3 minutes
Four hundred years ago, François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, who would go on to secure his literary immortality as the author of nonsensical aphorisms that have stood generations of epigraph-hungry writers in good stead, was a frondeur, an inveterate rebel against the whimsical tyranny of the king. He was gallant, eloquent, and principled, and he wasn't willing to compromise.
He was the exact opposite of those about whom
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