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Secret Memoirs of the Regency - The Minority of Louis XV (1910) (Hardcover)
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Secret Memoirs of the Regency - The Minority of Louis XV (1910) (Hardcover)
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Duclos was in his time, as much as his contemporaries Diderot or
Voltaire, one of the great personages of the republic of letters;
he was, more than any other writer, loaded with titles and honors.
He became in turn mayor of Dinan, deputy to the Etats of Brittany,
member of the Acadmie Franaise when about forty years of age,
historiographer of France, then finally, in 1775, secrtaire
perptuel of the Acadmie. In his capacity of historiographer, he had
access to all the departments of the administration and specially
had at his disposal the papers of the library of the minister of
Foreign Affairs. On the death of Saint-Simon many manuscripts
containing secrets of State were seized and from these Duclos drew
most interesting Memoirs; those of the Regency written in a lively
and at times remarkable style sustain the interest throughout.
Apart from the secret papers from which he drew, his own
experiences were of service to him, for having been born in 1704,
and having died at the age of sixty-eight, he had seen the times
and the changes of which he speaks. "I have personally known," he
says in his own Introduction to the Memoirs, "the greater number of
those of whom I shall have occasion to speak; I have lived with
several of them, and, having played no part, am able to judge the
actors."
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