Все книги

Louis Saint-Simon

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 01Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 01 INTRODUCTION No library of Court documents could pretend to be representative which ignored the famous "Memoirs" of the Duc de Saint-Simon. They sta...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 15Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 15 CHAPTER CXIII Few events of importance had taken place during my absence in Spain. Shortly after my return, however, a circumstance occurred which m...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Complete INTRODUCTION No library of Court documents could pretend to be representative which ignored the famous “Memoirs” of the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 14Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 14 CHAPTER CV For a long time a species of war had been declared between the King of England and his son, the Prince of Wales, which had caused much sc...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 13Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 13 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 Le...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 12Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 12 CHAPTER LXXXVIII The Abbe Alberoni, having risen by the means I have described, and acquired power by following in the track of the Princesse des Ur...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 11Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 11 CHAPTER LXXVIII After having thus described with truth and the most exact fidelity all that has come to my knowledge through my own experience, or o...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 09Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 09 CHAPTER LXI Let me here relate an incident which should have found a place earlier, but which has been omitted in order that what has gone before mi...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 10Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 10 CHAPTER LXX The reign of Louis XIV. was approaching its conclusion, so that there is now nothing more to relate but what passed during the last mont...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 07Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 07 CHAPTER XLVII The death of D'Avaux, who had formerly been our ambassador in Holland, occurred in the early part of this year (1709). D'Avaux was one...