Hippolyte de La Rochefoucauld

[4] A diplomat, Count de La Rochefoucauld served as Minister Plenipotentiary in Germany and to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Florence.

[5] During the Second French Empire, Count de La Rochefoucauld retired to his family's longtime home, the Château de Verteuil, where he brought a fine collection of furniture and 18th-century Venetian glass chandeliers.

He also commissioned a copy of the statue by Didier Début on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris of the author of the Maximes.

[8] Hippolyte's son, Count Aimery, continued to collect souvenirs of their ancestors, turning the château into a sort of family museum.

[10] Together, they were the parents of:[11] Count de La Rochefoucauld died on 11 January 1893 in Paris.