Duc De Saint-simon
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THE Duc de Saint-Simon, one of the most fascinating characters of the reign of Louis XIV and the French Regency, reveals himself in his Memoirs. One of the greatest influences on French and English literature in the past two hundred years, his famous Memoirs were used and imitated by Stendhal, Saint-Beuve, Proust, Macaulay, Lytton Strachey, Winston Churchill, and Henry Adams. They also formed part of the education of Queen Victoria and Edward VII. "Spinach and Saint-Simon have been my only lasting passions.? - STENDHAL. "Saint-Simon must escape oblivion. ... Even were Versailles to become a famous ruin the duke must live on, the living ghost of an empty shell." -JEAN COCTEAU. This is not a collection of excerpts from the Memoirs, but an abridgement of them, a narrative selection, the first volume covering the years 1691-1709, running parallel with Saint-Simon at Versailles, but thanks to the richness of the material barely touching the same ground. The selection is designed to bring out the Duke's character, his views of friends, enemies, religion, politics, personalities, current events, the Spanish Court, Marlborough's battles; above all to reveal the hand of the artist that has made his great tapestry as alive and modern as when he wove it more than two hundred years ago, and the passionate interest in human nature that makes the past suddenly flare up before the eyes of the mind.
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