Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE, was a French courtier and memoirist, who also spent time as a soldier and diplomat. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne.
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La Ferté-Vidame Castle, south facade, circa 1750, by Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Saint-Simon's baptismal certificate, signed by the king and queen, bottom left. Versailles Castle Archives.
Portrait of a young Saint-Simon, by Hyacinthe Rigaud, c. 1685
Statue of Saint-Simon, Hôtel de Ville, Paris
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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE, was a French courtier and memoirist, who also spent time as a soldier and diplomat. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne. 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.
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deceased
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Lived 1675 to 1755 · aged 80
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