Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency - Volume 03

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At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly n-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. He also allied himself with Louis, Duke of Burgundy , the Dauphin's son and next heir to the French throne. Saint-Simon loathed "the bastards," Louis XIV's illegitimate children, and not, apparently, entirely because they were accorded ceremonial precedence above France's peers.

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.

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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. He died in Paris on 2 March , having almost entirely outlived his own generation and exhausted his family's wealth, though not its notoriety: All his possessions, including his writings, were seized by the Crown on his death.

It can be said that the actual events of Saint-Simon's life, long as it was and exalted as was his position, are neither numerous nor noteworthy.

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.

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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.