Duc de saint simon biography of christopher

Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint-Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that..

The Duke of Saint-Simon is one of the most famous memoirists of all time, and the most meticulous and detailed account available to us for the court of Louis XIV of France.

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Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint-Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that.

The act of repaying a debt to the past connects Saint-Simon's historiography to his family history, and his views are undoubtedly inflected by his personal.

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

He’s not always the most reliable source, as he particularly enjoys boasting, about his powerful friends, about his own intellect, and so on. One of his most persistent boasts in his memoirs is that his lineage is impeccable, in ancientness and nobility, and that he therefore deserved to be treated with the utmost of deference (which he rarely got), and deserved a seat at the table of royal government.

Yet how much do most people interested in the history of Versailles know about this lineage? Who were these exalted ancestors of the Duke of Saint-Simon? Most specialists of the history of the French court or of French literature of the 18^th century probably could not tell you.

On another level entirely, the name Saint-Simon means something else to historians of a different stripe, those who are in