Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

Who was Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon?

Louis de Rouvroy commonly known as Saint-Simon was a French soldier, diplomat and writer of memoirs, was born in Paris. The dukedom-peerage granted to his father, Claude de Rouvroy, is a central fact in his history.

Famous Quotes:

• There was nothing he liked so much as flattery, or, to put it more plainly, adulation; the coarser and clumsier it was, the more he relished it