Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
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"Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon" by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon is a memoir written between 1739-1749. This nearly 3,000-page manuscript chronicles thirty years at the French court, from 1691 to 1723, spanning the final years of Louis XIV's reign and the Regency period. Written with piercing observation and vivid detail, these memoirs remained unpublished until 1829, long after the author's death. The work profoundly influenced major French writers including Chateaubriand,
Stendhal, Balzac, and Proust, becoming a monument of French literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 1675-1755 |
|---|---|
| Commentator | Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869 |
| Commentator | Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 |
| Title |
Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon Siècle de Louis XIV, la régence, Louis XV |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_de_Saint-Simon |
| Credits |
Produced by Gallica - Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Mireille Harmelin, Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco |
| Subject | France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715 |
| Subject | France -- History -- Regency, 1715-1723 |
| Subject | France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 17044 |
| Release Date | Nov 11, 2005 |
| Last Update | Dec 12, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 478 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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