Back لويس دى روفروى دوق سان سيمون ARZ Луі дэ Руўруа Сен-Сімон Byelorussian Луи дьо Рувроа, херцог дьо Сен Симон Bulgarian Louis de Rouvroy Catalan لویی دو ڕۆڤروا، دووک دو سانت سیمۆن CKB Louis de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon Czech Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon German Λουί ντε Ρουβρουά, δούκας του Σαιν-Σιμόν Greek Louis de Rouvroy, duque de Saint-Simon Spanish Louis de Rouvroy (Saint-Simongo dukea) Basque
Louis de Rouvroy | |
|---|---|
| Duke of Saint-Simon | |
 Portrait by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, c. 1728 | |
| Born | 16 January 1675 Paris, France |
| Died | 2 March 1755 (aged 80) Paris, France |
| Spouse(s) | Marie Gabrielle de Durfort |
| Issue Detail | Charlotte, Princess of Chimay Jacques Louis, Marquis of Ruffec Armand Jean |
| Father | Claude de Rouvroy |
| Mother | Charlotte de L'Aubespine |
| Signature |  |
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.[1] He was born in Paris at the Hôtel 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.
His enormous memoirs are a classic of French literature, giving the fullest and most lively account of the court at Versailles of Louis XIV and the Régence at the start of Louis XV's reign.
- ^ Saintsbury 1911, p. 47.
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