Tallemant des Réaux
"Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome sixième" by Tallemant des Réaux is a collection of personal memoirs written from 1657 onwards. This sixth volume continues Tallemant's candid portraits of seventeenth-century France, chronicling kings, courtiers, writers, and scandalous figures with unflinching honesty. Written without intention of publication, these accounts remained in manuscript form until 1834, when they shocked readers who preferred idealized versions of the Grand Siècle. Tallemant's iconoclastic observations offer an intimate, unvarnished glimpse into the political and literary world of his time. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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