Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon

Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon
Author: Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon
Publisher: 1500 Books LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: France
ISBN: 9781933698144

Wit, humor, vitriol and pageantry-the necessary hallmarks for a peer at the French court also deliver a great read. 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."

Memoirs

Memoirs
Author: Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Translated from the French.

Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV

Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV
Author: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2001-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226473208

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.

The Road from the Past

The Road from the Past
Author: Ina Caro
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780156003636

In this delightful blend of information, history, and opinion, Ina Caro gives us a four-dimensional tour of France. With inimitable insights and an informed sensibility cultivated from study and numerous visits to France, she takes us to where history unfolds--and then to a favorite spot for a picnic or five-course meal.

Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train

Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train
Author: Ina Caro
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2011-06-27
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0393082016

“I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—Newsweek In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. “[An] enchanting travelogue” (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.