EPISODE · Oct 1, 2016 · 42H 8M
Memoirs Louis XIV and the Regency [Written by Dolf de Roos]
from Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Dolf de Roos
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memoirs Louis XIV and the Regency Author: Dolf de Roos Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 42 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a French soldier, diplomat and noted diarist. A French courtier during the 18th century, today he's best known for the comprehensive multi-volume memoirs, which depict life in France at the time. He was an indefatigable writer, and he began very early to record all the gossip he collected, all his interminable legal disputes over precedence, and a vast mass of unclassified material. He is petty, unjust to private enemies and to those who espoused public views contrary to his as well as being an incessant gossip. Yet he shows a great skill for narrative and for character-drawing; he has been compared to Tacitus, and to historians such as Livy.He had a profound influence on writers like Tolstoy, Barbey d' Aurevilly, Flaubert, Valle-Inclán, Proust, Mujica Láinez, and many others.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memoirs Louis XIV and the Regency Author: Dolf de Roos Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 42 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a French soldier, diplomat and noted diarist. A French courtier during the 18th century, today he's best known for the comprehensive multi-volume memoirs, which depict life in France at the time. He was an indefatigable writer, and he began very early to record all the gossip he collected, all his interminable legal disputes over precedence, and a vast mass of unclassified material. He is petty, unjust to private enemies and to those who espoused public views contrary to his as well as being an incessant gossip. Yet he shows a great skill for narrative and for character-drawing; he has been compared to Tacitus, and to historians such as Livy.He had a profound influence on writers like Tolstoy, Barbey d' Aurevilly, Flaubert, Valle-Inclán, Proust, Mujica Láinez, and many others.
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