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La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, FranCois Alexandre FrEdEric, duc de[AleksAN´dru frAdArEk´ dUk du lA rOshfOOkO´-lyANkOOr´] Pronunciation Key, 1747–1827, French social reformer. Before the French Revolution he established a model farm, two factories, and a trade school on his estate, and in the Constituent Assembly he urged the necessity of public welfare. A royalist during the French Revolution, he was forced to flee to England in 1792. From there he traveled to the United States where he wrote Voyage dans les Etats-Unis d'AmErique (1799). Upon his return to France (1799), he resumed his philanthropic activities, working especially for health, educational, and economic reforms.
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