Somewhat earlier, La Rochefoucauld had taken his place in the salon of Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, a member of the Marquise de Rambouillet côterie, and the founder of a kind of successor to it, whose special literary work was the writing of Sentences and Maximes.
Three years later, in 1665, he anonymously published the Maximes, (maxims) which established his position among the men of letters of the time [REF].