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... Saint - Simon's Mémoires . He is right , I think , and especially right when he refers to the portraits drawn by Saint - Simon . For all Proust's men and women are composite literary creations ; and , although he was passionately ...
... Saint - Simon's Mémoires . He is right , I think , and especially right when he refers to the portraits drawn by Saint - Simon . For all Proust's men and women are composite literary creations ; and , although he was passionately ...
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... Saint - Simon , that were both painful and embarrassing ! The King , nevertheless , though sometimes selfish and callous , was , the memoirist asserts , an extremely civil ruler - ' jamais homme si naturellement poli ' . Yet , Saint - Simon ...
... Saint - Simon , that were both painful and embarrassing ! The King , nevertheless , though sometimes selfish and callous , was , the memoirist asserts , an extremely civil ruler - ' jamais homme si naturellement poli ' . Yet , Saint - Simon ...
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... Saint - Simon ; but they were very different artists . Saint - Simon had a classic view of life : the values he most re- spected were dignity , order , faith ; his chief enemies , the agents of disorder and change that threatened the ...
... Saint - Simon ; but they were very different artists . Saint - Simon had a classic view of life : the values he most re- spected were dignity , order , faith ; his chief enemies , the agents of disorder and change that threatened the ...
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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