CHAPTER LXI
Let me here relate an incident which should have found
a place earlier, but which has been omitted in order
that what has gone before might be uninterrupted.
On the 16th of the prev...
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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon Biographies (1)
The French writer Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), provides in his classic "Memoirs" a major source of information on the court of the "Sun King," Louis XIV.The Duc de Saint-Simon was...
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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 09
Saint-Simon, Duc de