# Selections from Saint-Simon

Author: Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 1675-1755; Tilley, Arthur Augustus, 1851-1942 [Editor]

Genre: FR Biographie, Mémoires, Journal intime, Correspondance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57929

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Selections+from+Saint-Simon+Saint-Simon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is not every lover of French literature who has the leisure or the courage to read the whole of Saint-Simon’s _Mémoires_, the text of which fills eighteen and a half volumes of the edition of MM. Chéruel and Ad. Régnier _fils_. Nor is it all of equal interest. I thought, therefore, that a selection might prove acceptable to the busy or faint-hearted reader, and perhaps even whet his appetite for the work itself. In making the selection I have practically confined myself to the first two-thirds of the _Mémoires_, that is to say, to the reign of Louis XIV, and I have chosen the passages with a view to illustrating that reign during the period of its declining splendour. In the first four...

## Chapters

- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selections-from-saint-simon-57929/chapters/23/index.md)