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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).
Location of Orleans Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is consolidated with the city of New Orleans.
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Coordinates 29°55′33″N 90°05′32″W / 29.925841°N 90.092261°W / 29.925841; -90.092261 ( 1852, Touro I
The Ursulines have a long history in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.. Arrival of the Ursulines in New Orleans, 1727 (19th century depiction) As early as 1726, King Louis XV of France decided that three Ursuline nuns from Rouen should go to New Orleans to establish a hospital for poor sick people and to provide education for young girls of wealthy families.
Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
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 ...
In his Mémoires written in the 1720s, Saint-Simon (1675–1755) dismisses François as someone who gained their status through flattery and subservience. [17] The accuracy of this is hard to assess; Saint-Simon was 16 when François died in 1691 and uniformly hostile to Louis XIV and his supporters, the majority of whom he dismissed as ...
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 ...