Secret Memoirs of the Regency: The Minority of Louis XV

Duclos was in his time, as much as his contemporaries Diderot or Voltaire, one of the great personages of the republic of letters; he was, more than any other writer, loaded with titles and honors. He became in turn mayor of Dinan, deputy to the Etats of Brittany, member of the Académie Française when about forty years of age, historiographer of France, then finally, in 1775, secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie. In his capacity of historiographer, he had access to all the departments of th...