French diplomat Louis de Rouvroy with title of duc de Saint-Simon wrote memoirs, a valuable historical source, of the court of Louis XIV. This grandee served as a soldier. A mother bore him at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 Rue Taranne, demolished in 1876 to make way for the Boulevard Saint-Germain. His enormous classic of literature give the fullest and most lively account at Versailles of the Régence at the start of reign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_d...