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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE (French pronunciation: [lwi də ʁuvʁwa]; 16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist.He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in 1876 to make way for the Boulevard Saint-Germain).
In 1828, Henri Jean de Rouvroy brought together the 11 portfolios containing the 2,854 pages of the Memoirs of his distant relative the Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755). He published the work in 1829 and 1830 through publisher Auguste Sautelet, in 27 volumes, under the title Mémoires complets et authentiques du duc de Saint-Simon sur le siècle de Louis XIV et la Régence : publies pour la ...
Claude de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon. Claude de Rouvroy, 1st Duke of Saint-Simon (French pronunciation: [klod də ʁuvʁwa]; August 1607 – 3 May 1693), was a French soldier and courtier, and favourite of Louis XIII of France, who created his dukedom for him. His only son Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon (1675–1755) was the famous memoirist ...
Simon of Cyrene, the man who carried the cross of Jesus as Jesus was taken to his crucifixion, canonized; Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, courtier in the court of Louis XIV and writer of memoirs thereof; Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, utopian socialist and originator of Saint-Simonism; San Simón, a Latin American folk saint
The second chapel was constructed as part of Louis XIV's second building campaign (1669–1672), when Louis Le Vau constructed the Château Neuf.When the new part of the château was completed, the chapel was situated in the Grand appartement de la reine and formed the symmetrical pendant with the Salon de Diane in the Grand appartement du roi.
The Cat and the King (1981) is a work of historical fiction about the court of French King Louis XIV (1638–1715) by novelist Louis Auchincloss.The novel's narrator—Louis de Rouvroy, the second Duc de Saint-Simon—was a real-life French noble who observed life at the court and recorded in his memoirs all that he saw and felt about the reign of the Sun King.
A jury convicted Nestor Hernandez, 31, in the October 2022 deaths of Jacqueline Pokuaa and Katie Annette Flowers, who were shot in the maternity ward of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, the Dallas ...
Louis IX of France, French king – St. Louis, Missouri and dozens of other places named Saint Louis; Louis XIV of France, French king – Louisiana; Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis, French physician – Angle of Louis. Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria – Alberta; H. P. Lovecraft, American novelist ...