CHAPTER XCVII
To go back, now, to the remaining events of the year
1719.
The Marquise de Charlus, sister of Mezieres, and mother
of the Marquis de Levi, who has since become a duke
and a peer, died ri...
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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 13
Saint-Simon, Duc de