A Manual of Historical Literature Comprising Brief Descriptions of the Most Imp
A Manual of Historical Literature Comprising Brief Descriptions of the Most Imp
Charles Kendall Adams
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Before the year 1829 only fragmentary portions of the work had been allowed to be published. Voltaire and a few other his- torians, however, had been permitted to sec the MS. , and had made some use of it in the preparation of historical works. But when, in 1829, it was finally published, it produced an extraordi- nary sensation. It probably gave the severest blow the Bourbons ever received. It showed that the most brilliant reign ever seen in France, when stripped of its gilding and tinsel, wa...s chiefly a mass of rags and wretchedness. The popularity of these "Me- moirs" may be inferred from the fact that in a single year six editions of the work, in 20 vols. , were disposed of in Paris. HISTORIES OF FRANCE. 349 Dangeau, Marquis de— Journal du, — publie en cntier pour la premiere fois, avec Ics Additions ineditees du Due de Saint- Simon, publiees par M. Feuillet dc Conches, 1G84-1718. 19 vols. , 8vo, Paris, 1854-61. One of the great sources from which the history of the reign of Louis XIV.
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