Jun 21, 2025
Chez Saint-Simon: "il se rebéqua par des remontrances".
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Chez Saint-Simon: "il se rebéqua par des remontrances".
"Madame de Maintenon was seated, facing the plain, in a litter chair with three window-panes...The King was standing to the right of her chair, and every second moment he would bend down to explain to Madame de Maintenon what was going on in the exercises. Each time, she would lower her window four or five fingerlengths...the King spoke to no one but her, other than to give out orders...Everyone was astonished and embarrassed and pretending not to notice, but they were watching this more attentively than anything the army was doing..."
Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV, Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon - Veronica Buckley (pg. 368)
Louis XIV in a perfectly breathable room : THE AIR. ITS OLD. I CANT BREATHE. THE HEAT IS KILLING ME WOMAN. IT KEEPS IN DISEASE. *Frantically opens every single window*
Madame de Maintenon : *weak cough* Sire... My husband... I think have pneumonia... Please, I need warmth...
Louis XIV feeling the winter night draft fill his lungs : Mmm fresh air. Good for the mind and body.
Le Duc de Saint-Simon assiste en 1718 au "Lit de Justice". La haute noblesse est rassemblée dans une salle pour décider de rétablir dans sa préséance l'ancienne étiquette et de destituer les "bâtards" que certains partisans de Louis XIV mort 3 ans plus tôt, avaient favorisé. C'est l'affrontement de deux partis de la noblesse, la vraie pour laquelle tient Saint-Simon, et la "suce-pouvoir". C'est ce type de dualité qui était déjà cause de la Fronde au 17ème siècle et fera ensuite que des nobles libéraux condamnent des nobles véridiques en 1793.
Ici c'est la vengeance des aristocrates véridiques qui ont souffert 50 ans sous le démocrate Louis XIV qui lui-même se vengeait de la Fronde. Ce Lit de Justice a lieu dans une salle bondée mais silencieuse et pétrifiée, où chaque geste, chaque saisie d'un document, chaque toussotement est interprété par des partis qui s'épient et se contiennent au fur et à mesure du déroulé du jugement. Il faut se représenter cette scène pour goûter cette page du Duc de Saint-Simon.
Duc de Saint-Simon, Mémoires
Hi my name is Louis de Rouvroy Duc de Saint-Simon (Louis XIII had a crush on my dad, that's how I got my name) and my noble head is crowned with a long, fluffy, lightly powdered wig of brown horsehair. I'm a duke and peer of France AND I'm a grandee of Spain, which is like being a duke x 2, and a lot of people know that I'm besties with the Duc d'Orléans. (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!) I'm not related to the Princesse des Ursins but I wish I was because she's a major fucking hottie. I'm 4'10" and hunchbacked but I carry myself like a duke and peer (which I am). I'm French (in case you couldn't tell) and I'm also a diarist, and when I'm not at court collecting gossip I live at my principal seat which is called La Ferté-Vidame. I love Paris and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a fine embroidered black coat and knee-breeches and high heels. I had just arrived at the Parlement de Paris (as a duke and peer I'm a hereditary member) with lots of other dukes and peers, which I was very happy about. Some royal bastards stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon
Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon
Saint-Simon. You probably heard that name once or twice before and most likely in combination with quotes. Louis de Rouvroy, commonly called Saint-Simon, managed to write himself into the history books of the world by writing his memoirs. If he had not written those, hardly anyone would know he existed. Louis de Rouvroy was born on 16 January 1675 in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois to Claude de…
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Fuyons la folie des extrémités qui n'ont d'issue que les abîmes. - Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon
Mémoires (1829) Citations de Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon