CHAPTER XXXIII
Two very different persons died towards the latter
part of this year. The first was Lamoignon, Chief
President; the second, Ninon, known by the name of
Mademoiselle de l’Enc...
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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 05
Saint-Simon, Duc de