- Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Duc de Saint-Simon: The Court of Louis XIV The Duc de Saint-Simon resided for many years at Versailles. He left an account of Life there. The Court His natural talents were below mediocrity; but he had a mind capable of improvement, of receiving polish, of assimilating what was best in the minds of others without slavish imitation; and ...www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17stsimon.html
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