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1 Chapter 1 : Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint Simon Revolvy The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon, Abridged from the Fr. by B. St. John [Louis De Rouvroy] on theinnatdunvilla.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Derived at least traditionally and imaginatively from the douze pairs twelve peers of Charlemagne, the peerage of France was supposed to be, literally, the chosen of the noblesse, deemed thereafter to incarnate the French nobility par excellence. Strictly speaking, a French peerage usually attached to a dukedom was granted in favour of a designated fief rather than upon the titleholder per se. Life[ edit ] Portrait when young His father, Claude, the first duke, was a tall and taciturn man who was keen on hunting. Louis de Saint-Simon was the opposite; garrulous, much shorter, and preferring life indoors. King Louis had appointed his father as Master of Wolfhounds before granting him a dukedom in at a relatively young age; he was 68 when Louis was born. He kept his position at court but only with difficulty, and then immersed himself in court intrigue at Versailles, tapping a collection of informants, the likes of dukes as well as servants, which later yielded him the benefit of an extraordinary amount of privileged information. Having previously served in London, he was nominated as ambassador to Rome in, but the appointment was cancelled before he departed. Though this was hardly likely to ingratiate him with Louis, it at least gave him the status of belonging to a definite party and it eventually placed him in the position of friend to the acting chief of state. However, it should be remembered that these reminiscences were written 30 years after the facts, by a disappointed man, and that Saint-Simon had maintained congenial or at least courteous relations with the majority of his fellow courtiers. He was somewhat gratified by the degradation of "the bastards" in and, in, he was appointed ambassador extraordinary to Spain so as to facilitate the marriage of Louis XV and Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain which, however, never took place. Saint-Simon was not eager, unlike most other nobility, to acquire profitable functions, and he did not use his influence to repair his finances, which were even further diminished by the extravagance of his embassy. After his return to France he had little to do with public affairs. He survived for more than thirty years; but little is known of the rest of his life. His wife died in, his eldest son a little later; he had other family troubles, and he was loaded with debt; the dukedom in which he took such pride ended with him, and his only granddaughter was childless. All his possessions, including his writings, were seized by the Crown on his death. Yet he posthumously acquired great literary fame. He was an indefatigable writer, and he began very early to record all the gossip he collected, all his interminable legal disputes over precedence, and a vast mass of unclassified material. Most of his manuscripts were retrieved by the Crown and it was long before their contents were fully published: On the one hand, he is petty, unjust to private enemies and to those who espoused public views contrary to his as well as being an incessant gossip. Yet he shows a great skill for narrative and for character-drawing; he has been compared to Tacitus, and to historians such as Livy. He is at the same time not a writer who can be "sampled" easily, [1] inasmuch as his most characteristic passages sometimes occur in the midst of long stretches of quite uninteresting diatribe. His vocabulary was extreme and inventive; he is deemed to have first used the word "intellectual" as a noun, and "patriot" and "publicity" are also accredited as being introduced by him in their current usage. His most famous passages, such as the account of the death of the Dauphin, or of the Bed of Justice where his enemy, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine, was degraded, do not give a fair idea of his talent. These are his celebrated pieces, his great "engines," as French art slang calls them. Much more noteworthy as well as more frequent are the sudden touches which he gives. The bishops are "cuistres violets" purple pedants ; " M. Page 1

2 Chapter 2 : Adelhida Talbot, Duchess of Shrewsbury - Wikipedia The Memoirs Of The Duke Of Saint Simon, Abridged From The Fr. By B. St. John [Louis de Rouvroy (duc de Saint-Simon.)] on theinnatdunvilla.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This is a reproduction of a book published before Derived at least traditionally and imaginatively from the douze pairs twelve peers of Charlemagne, the peerage of France was supposed to be, literally, the chosen of the noblesse, deemed thereafter to incarnate the French nobility par excellence. Strictly speaking, a French peerage usually attached to a dukedom was granted in favour of a designated fief rather than upon the titleholder per se. Life His father, Claude, the first duke, was a tall and taciturn man who was keen on hunting. Louis de Saint-Simon was the opposite; garrulous, much shorter, and prefering life indoors. King Louis had appointed his father as Master of Wolfhounds before granting him a dukedom in at a relatively young age; he was 68 when Louis was born. He kept his position at court but only with difficulty, and then immersed himself in court intrigue at Versailles, tapping a collection of informants, the likes of dukes as well as servants, which later yielded him the benefit of an extraordinary amount of privileged information. Having previously served in London, he was nominated as ambassador to Rome in, but the appointment was cancelled before he departed. Though this was hardly likely to ingratiate him with Louis, it at least gave him the status of belonging to a definite party and it eventually placed him in the position of friend to the acting chief of state. However, it should be remembered that these reminiscences were written 30 years after the facts, by a disappointed man, and that Saint-Simon had maintained congenial or at least courteous relations with the majority of his fellow courtiers. He was somewhat gratified by the degradation of "the bastards" in and, in, he was appointed ambassador extraordinary to Spain so as to facilitate the marriage of Louis XV and Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain which, however, never took place. Saint-Simon was not eager, unlike most other nobility, to acquire profitable functions, and he did not use his influence to repair his finances, which were even further diminished by the extravagance of his embassy. After his return to France he had little to do with public affairs. He survived for more than thirty years; but little is known of the rest of his life. His wife died in, his eldest son a little later; he had other family troubles, and he was loaded with debt; the dukedom in which he took such pride ended with him, and his only granddaughter was childless. Yet he posthumously acquired great literary fame. He was an indefatigable writer, and he began very early to record all the gossip he collected, all his interminable legal disputes over precedence, and a vast mass of unclassified material. Most of his manuscripts were retrieved by the Crown and it was long before their contents were fully published: On the one hand, he is petty, unjust to private enemies and to those who espoused public views contrary to his as well as being an incessant gossip. Yet he shows a great skill for narrative and for character-drawing; he has been compared to Tacitus, and to historians such as Livy. He is at the same time not a writer who can be "sampled" easily, [1] inasmuch as his most characteristic passages sometimes occur in the midst of long stretches of quite uninteresting diatribe. His vocabulary was extreme and inventive; he is deemed to have first used the word "intellectual" as a noun, and "patriot" and "publicity" are also accredited as being introduced by him in their current usage. His most famous passages, such as the account of the death of the Dauphin, or of the Bed of Justice where his enemy, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine, was degraded, do not give a fair idea of his talent. These are his celebrated pieces, his great "engines," as French art slang calls them. Much more noteworthy as well as more frequent are the sudden touches which he gives. The bishops are "cuistres violets" purple pedants ; " M. They had three children: Abridged by Bayle St. Translated by Bayle St. Swan, Sonnenschein, Lowrey, Translated and abridged by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Louis XIV at Versailles: Translated and edited by Desmond Flower. The Age of Magnificence: The Memoirs of the Duke de Saint-Simon. Edited and translated by Sanche de Gramont aka Ted Morgan. Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. Historical Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, volume 1 Edited and translated by Lucy Norton. Historical Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, volume 2 Historical Page 2

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4 Chapter 3 : memoirs of the duke of Saint Simon, abridged from the Fr. by B. St. John : : The memoirs of the duke of Saint Simon, abridged from the Fr. by B. St. John, Louis de Rouvroy (duc de Saint-Simon.) Author Louis de Rouvroy (duc de Saint-Simon.). Edit No one was made a peer who was not a nobleman, but men of the noblest blood might not be, and in most cases were not, peers. Derived at least traditionally and imaginatively from the douze pairs of Charlemagne, the peers were supposed to represent the chosen of the noblesse, and gradually became associated with the parliament of Paris as a quasi-legislative or at least law-registering and directly judicial body. The peerage was further complicated by the fact that not persons but the holders of certain fiefs were made peers. The castle brought with it the title of vidame de Chartres. It was a rare title; in the Middle Ages a vidame commanded the military forces of a bishop and performed other feudal duties unsuitable for a man of the Church. Over time, seven of these titles relating to some of the larger dioceses became attached to specific properties and usable as titles by the owner. Since he himself went by this title until he was eighteen, it may have been the subject of jokes. Saint-Simon was the opposite, garrulous, exceptionally short, and preferred to live indoors. Louis made him his Master of Wolfhounds and then gave him a Dukedom when relatively young; he was 68 when Saint-Simon was born. Saint-Simon was high up the order of precedence among the Dukes, but many of them were higher, in terms of ancestry and wealth. After some tuition by the Jesuits, he joined the mousquetaires gris in He was present at the siege of Namur, and the battle of Neerwinden. He seemed to have regarded her with a respect and affection unusual between husband and wife at the time; and she sometimes succeeded in modifying his aristocratic ideas. Thus Louis XIV took a dislike to him, and he kept his place at court only with difficulty. He was, however, intensely interested in all the transactions of Versailles, and kept a collection of informers ranging from dukes to servants, who gave him the extraordinary secret information which he has handed down. He was appointed ambassador to Rome in, but the appointment was cancelled before he started. Though this was hardly likely to conciliate Louis, it gave him at least the status of belonging to a definite party and it eventually placed him in the position of friend to the acting Chief of State. It does not appear that this hatred was founded on moral reasons or fear that these bastards would be intruded into the succession. The true cause of his wrath was that, by Royal fiat, they had ceremonial precedence over the peers. But no steps were taken to carry out his favourite vision of a France ruled by the nobility, and he had little real influence with the Regent. He was gratified by the degradation of "the bastards," and, in, he was appointed special ambassador to Spain to arrange for the marriage which never took place of Louis XV and Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain. Saint-Simon was not eager, as most other nobility, to acquire profitable functions, and he did not use his influence to repair his finances, even further ruined by the magnificence of his embassy. But there can be little doubt that he was eclipsed, and even expelled from the Meudon castle by Dubois. He survived for more than thirty years; but little is known of his life. His wife died in, his eldest son a little later; he had other family troubles, and he was loaded with debt; the dukedom in which he took such pride ended with him, and his only granddaughter was childless. This last was in strange fashion revived by a distant relative born five years after his own death, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon [1] â the founder of Socialism. All his possessions, including his writings, were seized by the State on his death, and a large part of his Memoirs is missing. Yet he posthumously acquired great literary fame. He was an indefatigable writer, and he began very early to write down all the gossip he collected, all his interminable legal disputes of precedence, and a vast mass of unclassified matter. Most of his manuscripts came into the possession of the government, and it was long before their contents were fully published. On the one hand, he is petty, unjust to private enemies and to those who espoused public parties with which he did not agree, and an omnivorous gossip. Yet he shows a great skill for narrative and for character-drawing. He has been compared to Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, and to historians such as Livy. He is at the same time not a writer who can be "sampled" easily, [1] inasmuch as his most characteristic passages sometimes occur in the midst of Page 4

5 long stretches of quite uninteresting matter. His vocabulary was extreme and inventive; among other words he is supposed to provide the first use of "intellectual" as a noun, and to have invented "patriot" and "publicity". His most famous passages, such as the account of the death of the dauphin, or of the Bed of Justice where his enemy, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine, was degraded, do not give a fair idea of his talent. These are his gallery pieces, his great "engines," as French art slang calls them. Much more noteworthy as well as more frequent are the sudden touches which he gives. The bishops are "cuistres violets" purple pedants ; M. In short, the interest of the Memoirs is in the novel and adroit use of word and phrase. They had three children: Page 5

6 Chapter 4 : Biography & Autobiography Royalty Hardcover Illustrated Nonfiction Books for sale ebay The memoirs of the duke of Saint Simon, abridged from the Fr. by B. St. John Item Preview. He became so bad, in fact, that his people were forced to undress him then and there, put him to bed, and call in the doctor. Madame la Duchesse de Berry was beside herself, and we shall soon see why. The most bitter despair was painted with horror on her face So sudden a change rendered my surprise extreme. Everybody had gone to Madame la Duchesse de Bourgogne. I followed on with all speed. I found all Versailles assembled on arriving, all the ladies hastily dressed â the majority having been on the point of going to bed â all the doors open, I believed Monseigneur saved, and wished to remain at my own house; nevertheless I took advice, as I have done all my life, and with great regret set out the next morning. He was coming from Paris and Versailles, and came up to me as I changed horses. Monseigneur, he said, was going on admirably; and he added details which convinced Few words passed in conversation â here and there an exclamation wrung from grief was answered by some neighbouring grief â a word every quarter of an hour â sombre and haggard eyes â movements quite involuntary of the hands â immobility of all other parts of the body. Those who already looked upon the event as favourable They threw themselves at the foot of his bed, which they kissed several times, and in their joy said they would go back to Paris and have a Te Deum sung. But Monseigneur, who was not insensible to these marks of popular affection, told them it was not yet time, thanked them, and gave them a dinner, and some money. In a moment or two all the candles were put out, and the ladies, with but few exceptions, left the chapel. Soon after the King arrived, and, much astonished to see so few ladies present, asked how it was that nobody was there. At the conclusion of the prayers, Brissac related what he had done, not without dwelling on the piety of the Court ladies. The King and all who accompanied him laughed heartily. The story soon spread, and these ladies would The Princess returned to her carriage, and came back to Versailles, bringing in reality the first news of the actual death of Monseigneur. Acting upon the advice of M. The two Princes, Monseigneur de Bourgogne and M. These beds had been put in their usual place this evening before the bad news came As for Madame la Duchesse de Bourgogne she consoled her husband with less trouble than she had to appear herself in want of consolation. Without attempting to play a part, it was evident that she did her best to acquit herself of a pressing duty of decorum. But she found extreme difficulty in keeping up appearances. When the Prince her brother-in-law howled, she blew her He talked of nothing but this and of the sums he had spent at Chantilly, until his reason began to wander. Not a soul regretted him ; neither servants nor friends, neither child nor wife. Indeed the Princess was so ashamed of her tears that she made excuses for them. This was scarcely to be wondered at. Chapter 5 : Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon - Wikipedia Full text of "The memoirs of the duke of Saint Simon, abridged from the Fr. by B. St. John" See other formats. Chapter 6 : Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy duc de Open Library memoirs of the duke of Saint Simon, abridged from the Fr. by B. St. John od vyå la v roce a obsahuje stran. This book, "The memoirs of the duke of Saint Simon, abridged from the Fr. by B. St. John", by Louis de Rouvroy, is a replication of a book originally published before Chapter 7 : Ebook St Simons Memoir as PDF Download Portable Document Format Books by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy duc de, Mà moires, Saint-Simon par lui-mãªme, Mà moires complets et authentiques du duc de Saint-Simon sur le siã cle de Louis XIV et la rã gence, The memoirs of the Duke of Page 6

7 Saint-Simon on the reign of Louis XIV. Chapter 8 : Full text of "The memoirs of the duke of Saint Simon, abridged from the Fr. by B. St. John" Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon (16 January - 2 March ), was a French soldier, diplomat and memoirist. He was born in Paris at the HÃ tel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in to make place for the Blvd Saint-Germain). Chapter 9 : Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon Military Wiki FANDOM powered by Wikia Get this from a library! The memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the reign of Louis XIV and the regency. [Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, duc de; Bayle St John]. Page 7