Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

French soldier and courtier

Died
1693
Claude de Rouvroy, 1st Duke of Saint-Simon, was a French soldier and courtier, and favourite of Louis XIII, who created his dukedom for him. His only son Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon (1675โ€“1755) was the famous memoirist of the court of Louis XIV.

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