Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (born 1607)

Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

French soldier and courtier

Claude de Rouvroy, 1st Duke of Saint-Simon, was a French soldier and courtier, and favourite of Louis XIII of France, who created his dukedom for him. His only son Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon (1675–1755) was the famous memoirist of the court of Louis XIV.