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Louis de Rouvroy (16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755) styled ''duc de Saint-Simon'' was a French soldier, diplomat and a noted diarist; he was born in Paris (Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne, today at 175 Bvd. Saint-Germain).〔(www.buddhabarhotelparis.com )〕〔(www.hotelducdesaintsimon.com )〕 His family's ducal peerage (''duché-pairie'') was granted to his father, Claude de Rouvroy (1608–1693), a constant thought in Saint-Simon's life and writings. == Peerage of France == Men of the noblest blood (in Saint-Simon's view) might not be, and in most cases were not, peers in France. Derived at least traditionally and imaginatively from the ''douze pairs'' (twelve peers) of Charlemagne, the peerage of France was supposed to be, literally, the chosen of the ''noblesse'', deemed thereafter to incarnate the French nobility ''par excellence''. Their legal pre-eminence derived from hereditary membership of the Parlement of Paris, the highest of France's quasi-legislative and directly judicial assemblies. Strictly speaking, a French peerage (more often than not attached to a dukedom) was granted in favour of a designated fiefdom (rather than upon peer in person); such fiefs in law were corporeal hereditaments allowing their owner(s) to bear its title, rank, rights and privileges (i.e. fees). Had Saint-Simon succeeded in his lifelong ideal and ambition of conversion of France's peers into a ''Great Council of the Nation'', history no doubt would have followed a different course. His family's principal seat, where Saint-Simon's ''Mémoires'' were written, was at La Ferté-Vidame, bought by his father shortly after being elevated as a duke. The castle brought with it the ancient, entailed title of ''Vidame de Chartres'', to be borne as a courtesy style by the duke's heir apparent until reaching the age of eighteen. The title had become notorious through the elderly character in the court novel ''La Princesse de Clèves'', published in 1678, just three years after Saint-Simon's birth, so when the new Vidame de Chartres was received at court he met with a certain amount of jocularity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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