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The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was by all accounts, including his own, a sensitive, self-obsessed, ill-tempered man. A courtier and phenomenal chronicler of court life under Louis XIV, he produced the monumental work <i>Memoirs</i>, running to thousands of pages, in which the intrigues, personalities, activities, and gossip of life at Versailles are recorded in acerbic detail. Drawing heavily on these <i>Memoirs</i>, renowned historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie offers a wonderful portrait of life under Louis XIV, focusing on the fundamental issues of hierarchy and rank in this tightly controlled universe.<p><i>Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV</i>, expertly translated by Arthur Goldhammer, is a historical essay about court life, built with the wide range of tools Ladurie so expertly employs: ethnography, history, literary criticism, and historiography. Ladurie recreates a world in which man is most definitely born unequal, a world circumscribed entirely by purity of bloodline, which nonetheless directly preceded the birth of democratic thought and political action. Locked into a virtual caste system, courtiers formed within their ranks cabals, factions, and groups bonded by

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Author

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, with the collaboration of Jean-François Fitou

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226473208

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

3.84 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14