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Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 – 10 May 1696) was a French essayist and moralist. See also: Les Caractères La vie est une tragédie pour celui qui sent...

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (September 15 1613 – March 17 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well...

Étienne de La Boétie (1 November 1530 – 18 August 1563) was a French judge, political philosopher, and anarchist. Discours de la servitude volontaire,...

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette (baptized March 18, 1634 – May 25, 1693) was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's...

Jean de La Fontaine (July 8 1621 – April 13 1695) is a famous French fabulist and the most widely read French poet of the 17th century. People must help...

Calderón de la Barca (January 17, 1600 – May 25, 1681) was a Spanish dramatist and poet. Éstas que fueron pompa y alegría despertando al albor de la mañana...

Walter John de la Mare, OM, CH (April 25, 1873 – June 22, 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. Many of his poems and stories were...

Oscar de la Hoya (born February 4, 1973), nicknamed the Golden Boy, is a Mexican American boxer who won a gold medal for the United States Boxing Team...

Zacarías Manuel de la Rocha (born January 12, 1970, in Long Beach, California) is an American rapper, musician, poet, and activist of African, Mexican...

María de la Paz Elizabeth Sofía Adriana de la Huerta (born September 3, 1984) is an American actress and model. I feel the popular music of a certain...

ou les sentiments secrets, 1790), Act 2, sc. 8 L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes. Love is the whole...

never grow rich. La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] (1830), translated by Clara Bell Je suis un galérien de plume et d'encre...

1977, 2009; Originally published in French as: Gustave de Molinari, « De la production de la sécurité », Journal des économistes 22, no. 95, pp. 277–290...

playwright. He is most famous for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of...

Saint John of the Cross, or San Juan de la Cruz (24 June 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a Spanish Carmelite mystic and poet. The Dark Night Of The Soul...

de Lisle (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836) was a French composer who in 1792 wrote La Marseillaise, the French national anthem. Originally titled Chant de...

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886–November...

The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. La France fut faite à coups d'épée. La fleur de lys, symbole...

La France est la plus brillante et la plus dangereuse des nations de l'Europe, et la mieux faite pour y devenir tour à tour un objet d'admiration, de...

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (November 23, 1709 – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists...