The Secret Memoirs of the Duc de Roquelaure, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

The Due de Roquelaure was born in 1617, during the regency of Marie de Medici. While a courtier, he saw the rise and death of the great Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin, the tragedy of Cinq-M ars and De Thou, and the greater portion of the reign of the Grand Monarque, while as yet the royal star was constantly in the ascendant and its glory untarnished. In the Memoirs we see a long procession of courtiers, warriors, politicians, wits and savants, a bevy of great ladies, court beauties, adventuresses and courtezans, many of whose names are written large on the page of history. All these people the Due de Roquelaure met at the French Court upon a very intimate footing, and the lively old aristocrat tells us of the curious intrigues of, and the scandals about, innumerable great personages, sparing nobody, least of all himself. We see, as through a kaleidoscope, all the fascinating details of Court life during the most brilliant and withal careless period of French monarchy: in the midst of all this gaiety the Duke was one of the shining lights. We visit, in his company, the Court, the mansions and countryhouses of the nobility, as well as the taverns, bagnios and gaming-houses.
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