Saint-Simon ou la politique des Memoires

by Christophe Blanquie

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Extent: 321 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, French Studies

Series: Correspondances et memoires

Series volume number: 14, 6

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(November 2014)

ISBN: 9782812432576

5.94 x 8.62 inches

Price: $49.00

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Hardback (Published)

(February 2025)

ISBN: 9782812432583

5.94 x 8.62 inches

Price: $108.00

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In his Memoires, Saint-Simon describes how he consolidated his situation while he prepared to exercise a position of high responsibility, the only role which accorded with his dignity: that of advisor to the Prince. This wonderful text reveals a writer of a scope not previously imagined.

Christophe Blanquie est historien des mémorialistes du XVIIe siècle. Il a publié Les Portraits épistolaires du cardinal de Retz (Paris, 2011), Saint-Simon ou la politique des Mémoires (Paris, 2014) et a édité les Discours à sa famille de Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (Précy-sous-Thil, 2000) et ses Épigrammes (Paris, 2016).

  • By (author) Christophe Blanquie