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Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon Siècle de Louis XIV, la régence, Louis XV
by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de
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Creators: duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1675-1755), Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) [Commentator], and Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) [Commentator] "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 Written with piercing observation and vivid detail, these memoirs remained unpublished until 1829, long after the author's death.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.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 72.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 568