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Portugiesische Briefe (1669) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben280 Exemplare

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Plodding a bit. I am enjoying this simply because I have read so much in the era and about this King and his court that I am familiar with the names, places, events so that the behind the scenes look is interesting. I am not sure than anyone coming to it cold would find it riveting. The historical is fascinating in its own right.
 
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Karen74Leigh | Dec 10, 2020 |
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE (16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat and memoirist.[1] He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in 1876 to make way for the Blvd Saint-Germain). The family's ducal peerage (duché-pairie), granted in 1635 to his father Claude de Rouvroy (1608–1693), served as both perspective and theme in Saint-Simon's life and writings. He was the second and last Duke of Saint-Simon. His enormous memoirs are a classic of French literature, giving the fullest and most lively account of the court at Versailles of Louis XIV and the Régence at the start of Louis XV's reign.… (mehr)
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Karen74Leigh | Nov 20, 2020 |
Wit, humor, vitriol and pageantry -- the necessary hallmarks for a peer at the French court also deliver a great reading experience. Saint-Simon regales us with an irreverent insider's view of his more than 30 years at court, from the later days of Louis XIV to the ascension of Louis XV. All the plays for power, sex, position and money by friends, enemies, nobles and others are here, with Saint-Simon's fascinating, and brutally honest, assessment of any situation.
 
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Karen74Leigh | Nov 20, 2020 |
a readable, straightforward account of Louis XIV, his wife, mistresses, children, the building of Versailles and his death. On the same subject I enjoyed the romance of l'Allée du Roi (Françoise Chandernagor) more but it is also a lot longer.
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