French aristocrat and writer
François XIII de La Rochefoucauld, 8th Duke of La Rochefoucauld (8 September 1765 – 3 September 1848) was a French aristocrat and writer.
Early life.
De La Rochefoucauld was born on 8 September 1765 in Paris. was the heir and eldest son of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt and the former Félicité de Lannion. Among his siblings were Alexandre, comte de La Rochefoucauld, who married Adélaïde de Pyvart de Chastullé (a San Domingo heiress allied to the Beauharnais family), and Frédéric Gaëtan de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis of Liancourt.
Career.
Among his works are "Mélanges sur l’Angleterre" (a travel memoir) and "Souvenirs du 10 Aoȗt 1792 et de l’Armée de Bourbon". The former has twice been translated into English: first in 1933 as "A Frenchman in England, 1784" (translated by S.C. Roberts); and subsequently as "A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk, 1784" (translated by Norman Scarfe).
Personal life.
On 24 September 1793 he married Marie Françoise de Tott (1770–1854) at The Hague. The sister of French painter Sophie de Tott, she was the daughter of François Baron de Tott and Marie Rambaud. Among their children were: 
The Duke died on 3 September 1848 and was succeeded in the dukedom by his son, François XIV, who became the 9th Duke of La Rochefoucauld.
Descendants.
Through his son François, he was a grandfather of François XV de La Rochefoucauld (1818–1879), 10th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, and Alfred de La Rochefoucauld, 1st Duke of La Roche-Guyon (through whom he is ancestor of the La Roche-Guyon cadet branch of the family La Rochefoucauld).
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