Download or read book Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saint Simon and the Court of Louis XIV written by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a self-obsessed courtier and chronicler of court life under Louis XIV. Drawing heavily on his memoirs, historian Ladurie offers a wonderful portrait of life with Louis, focusing on issues of hierarchy and rank in this tightly controlled universe. Illustrations.
Download or read book Memoirs written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the French.
Download or read book The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon written by Bayle St. John and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV and the Regency written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon on the Times of Louis XIV and the Regency written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Letters written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1982 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV
Download or read book The Cat And The King written by Louis Auchincloss and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cat may look at a king, says an old proverb. The king is the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, whose fabled court at Versailles was the wonder of Europe; the cat is the watchful chronicler, Louis de Rouvroy, second duc de Saint-Simon, author of the famous Memoirs which are the definitive record of Louis’ reign. Auchincloss has conceived his novel as an extension of the Memoirs, in which Saint-Simon reveals his own story—as well as a great deal about the private lives of the great and near-great that did not find its way into the published record. With his inimitable gift for characterization, Auchincloss portrays Saint-Simon, the meticulous, proud aristocrat of the old school who is at once fascinated and threatened by the powerful centralized monarchy Louis is building and by the king’s plot to bolster his position by marrying off his illegitimate children to princes of the blood. Elegant, crisp, and abounding in authentic detail, The Cat and the King shows us the factions, liaisons, intrigues and dalliances that made up daily life at Versailles as they might have been seen from Saint-Simon’s highly critical perspective. Auchincloss imagines the dominant figures of this greatest period in French history—the aging Louis; his pious morganatic spouse, Madame de Maintenon; Monsieur, the king’s homosexual brother; the great warrior and ladies’ man Conti; and many others—as wholly believable individuals with peculiar tics and foibles of their own; but none is stranger, more fascinating, or more believable than Saint-Simon himself. A remarkable portrait of a quintessential man of his time, a discerning study of the use and abuse of power, and an utterly convincing recreation of a turbulent age that bears no small resemblance to our own, The Cat and the King is a many-faceted jewel that represents a new dimension of achievement in Louis Auchincloss’ distinguished career as a novelist.
Download or read book Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency Complete written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete" by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon Duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon was a French courtier during the 18th century, but today he's best known for his comprehensive multi-volume memoirs, which depict life in France and French society during the time period. This book is an amazing recounting of the life of a Duke during Louis XIV and up to the death of the regent who followed.
Download or read book Tolerance written by Caroline Warman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon on the Times of Louis XIV and the Regency written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Woman s Life in the Court of the Sun King written by Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (duchesse d') and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 November 1671, Liselotte von der Pfalz, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the Elector of Palatine, was married to Philippe d'Orleans, "Monsieur, " the only brother of Louis XIV. The marriage was not to be a happy one. Liselotte (known in France as Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans, or "Madame") was full of intellectual energy and moral rigor. Homesick for her native Germany, she felt temperamentally ill-suited to life at the French court. The homosexual Monsieur, deeply immersed in the pleasures and intrigues of the court, shared few of his wife's interests. Yet, for the next fifty years, Liselotte remained in France, never far from the center of one of the most glorious courts of Europe. And throughout this period, she wrote letters - sometimes as many as forty a week - to her friends and relatives in Germany. It is from this extraordinary body of correspondence that A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King has been fashioned. As introduced and translated by Elborg Forster, the letters have become the remarkable personal narrative of Liselotte's transformation from an innocent, yet outspoken, girl into a formidable observer of great events and human folly.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Duke de Saint Simon written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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