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, 1884-1913) as the _Recueil des instructions donnees aux
ambassadeurs et ministres de France depuis les traites de Westphalie
jusqu'a la revolution francaise_.
MEMOIRS OF THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV. Among the multitudinous memoirs of the
period, the most significant, from the standpoint of the general
historian, are: Marquise de Sevigne, _Lettres_, delightful
epistles relating mainly to the years 1670-1696, edited in fullest form
for "Les grands ecrivains de la France" by Monmerque, 14 vols. (1862-
1868), selections of which have been translated into English by C. Syms
(1898); Duc de Saint-Simon, _Memoires_, the most celebrated of
memoirs, dealing with many events of the years 1692-1723, gossipy and
racily written but occasionally inaccurate and frequently partisan,
edited many times--most recently and best for "Les grands ecrivains de
la France" by Arthur de Boislisle, 30 vols. (1879-1916), of which a
much-abridged translation has been published in English, 4 vols.;
Marquis de Dangeau, _Journal_, 19 vols.


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