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2 unusual facts about Mémoires secrets


Comte de Sanois

Among the publications which revealed the background and details of topical affairs, one of the most reliable is certainly the "Mémoires secrets", an anonymous serial published over many years Various authors have been credited with contributing to it, among them a certain Mouffle d’Angerville, to whom are attributed no less than thirty-four articles favourable to the Comte de Sanois.

Honoré Armand de Villars

Bachaumont noted, in his Mémoires (5 May 1770) that "the Duke of Villars was taxed with a vice that he had made fashionable at court, and that had brought him very wide renown, as can be seen in la Pucelle".



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Claude-Sixte Sautreau de Marsy

He wrote articles for the Année littéraire and other magazines; he edited the Selected Works (1786) of Dorat, the Mémoires secrets sur les règnes de Louis XIV et de Louis XV (1790), by Duclos, the letters of Madame de Maintenon (1800), and other publications.