Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint‐Simon (French politician and writer)
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- Saint‐Simon, Louis de Rouvroy duc de
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1675-01-16
- Place of birth
- Versailles
- Date of death
- 1755-03-02
- Place of death
- Paris
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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE (French pronunciation: [lwi də ʁuvʁwa]; 16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in 1876 to make way for the Boulevard Saint-Germain). The family's ducal peerage (duché-pairie), granted in 1635 to his father Claude de Rouvroy (1608–1693), served as both perspective and theme in Saint-Simon's life and writings. He was the second and last Duke of Saint-Simon.
His enormous memoirs are a classic of French literature, giving the fullest and most lively account of the court at Versailles of Louis XIV and the Régence at the start of Louis XV's reign.
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| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traités politiques et autres écrits | Hardcover | 9782070113705 | 1996-10-24 |
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- 2024-11-08