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Article: A great memoirist and his anatomy of rank within the Sun King's court.(B)(Books)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2001
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Byline: Stephen Goode
Louis, duc de Saint-Simon, was one of the world's great memoirists. Born in 1675, he pursued without distinction the military career natural to a son of an old and noble family. He was not yet 30 when he began living in a small, one-room flat in the Chateau de Versailles. Then, a few years later, in 1710, he and his wife acquired a spacious five-room apartment in the palace's northern wing with a kitchen, where he entertained elegantly and often all those men and women of station and power from whom he wanted to hear the lastest news and gossip about Louis XIV's court.
And listen Saint-Simon did, his eyes and ears always wide ...
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