Corpus boundary — La Rochefoucauld v1

Included

• Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales, 5th edition (1678) —
  PROOF WORK, the full set: epigraph + maxims 1–504.
  • EN evidence layer: Bund & Friswell 1871, Gutenberg #9105
    (sources/maxims_en.json).
  • FR arbiter layer: Gutenberg #14913, standard 1678 numbering
    (sources/maxims_fr.json).
  • Maxim 411 is present (recovered from an OCR artifact 4ll.-- in #9105).

Included separately, marked

• Maximes supprimées — the withdrawn maxims of the 1665 first edition
  (First Supplement of #9105, 65 units, cited ms.<N>; FR: 74 units in
  #14913). The author suppressed them in later editions; the KB uses them
  where they are the fullest statement of a doctrine (above all ms.1,
  the great portrait of amour-propre), always with the ms. marker so a
  reader sees the 1665-withdrawn status.

Excluded

• Second Supplement of #9105 (reflections from MS letters in the Royal
  Library) — manuscript material, not authorized text.
• Third Supplement of #9105 and the Réflexions diverses — separate
  essays; a candidate for v2, not part of the Maximes proper.
• Maximes posthumes (in #14913) — posthumous editorial gatherings.
• The Mémoires, letters, and the self-portrait — secondary context only.
• Internet quote collections and «лучшие афоризмы» without edition trace.
• Modern translations (Tancock, RU translations under copyright) — not PD.

Reason

The 1678 Maximes are the text the author fixed in his lifetime over five
editions — the stable primary source. The withdrawn 1665 maxims are kept as
a marked layer because the author's own act of suppression is part of the
evidence (he cut ms.1 for showing the machinery too openly). Everything
without an edition trace stays out of the evidence pool: La Rochefoucauld
is heavily quoted and heavily misquoted (see QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY).