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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE (16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist.He was born in Paris at the H?tel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in 1876 to make way for the Boulevard 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.

[Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon]

[Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete]

[Quotes and Images From Memoirs of Louis XIV]

[Selections from Saint-Simon]