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He became in turn mayor of Dinan, deputy to the Etats of Brittany, member of the Académie Francaise when about forty years of age, histo rio-grapher of France, then finally, in 1775, secre taire perpe'tuel of the Académie.
In his capacity of historiographer, he had access to all the departments of the administration and specially had at his disposal the papers of the library of the minister of Foreign Afiairs. It was not long before he discovered therein some curious works. First a history of Louis XI, begun by an abbé and never published; from this he evolved his own work Of the same name; then on the death of saint-simon many manuscripts containing secrets of State were seized and from these Duclos drew most interesting Memoirs; those of the Regency written in a lively and at times remarkable style sustain the interest throughout.
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He became in turn mayor of Dinan, deputy to the Etats of Brittany, member of the Académie Francaise when about forty years of age, histo rio-grapher of France, then finally, in 1775, secre taire perpe'tuel of the Académie.
In his capacity of historiographer, he had access to all the departments of the administration and specially had at his disposal the papers of the library of the minister of Foreign Afiairs. It was not long before he discovered therein some curious works. First a history of Louis XI, begun by an abbé and never published; from this he evolved his own work Of the same name; then on the death of saint-simon many manuscripts containing secrets of State were seized and from these Duclos drew most interesting Memoirs; those of the Regency written in a lively and at times remarkable style sustain the interest throughout.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Data di pubblicazione2018
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