Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV by Arthur Goldhammer, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV

Arthur Goldhammer, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

448 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675—1755) was by all accounts, including his own, a sensitive, self-obsessed, ill-tempered man. A courtier and phenomenal chronicler of court life under Louis XIV, he produced the monumental work Memoirs, running to thous...

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