It is not every lover of French literature who has the leisure or the courage to read the whole of Saint-Simon’s _Mémoires_, the text of which fills eighteen and a half volumes of the edition of MM. Chéruel and Ad. Régnier _fils_. Nor is it all of equal interest. I thought, therefore, that a selection might prove acceptable to the busy or faint-hearted reader, and perhaps even whet his appetite for the work itself. In making the selection I have practically confined myself to the first two-thirds of the _Mémoires_, that is to say, to the reign of Louis XIV, and I have chosen the passages with a view to illustrating that reign during the period of its declining splendour. In the first four ch…
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