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active 17th century Simon Du Cros

Known mainly through sharp political and historical writing, this little-known 17th-century author appears in the record as Simon Du Cros, or Monsieur de Cros. His surviving work offers a lively window into the arguments, reputations, and diplomatic quarrels of late Stuart Europe.

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Letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident at England in K. Charles the Second's reign) to the Lord ----; being an answer to Sir Wm. Temple's memoirs concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679

Letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident at England in K. Charles the Second's reign) to the Lord ----; being an answer to Sir Wm. Temple's memoirs concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679

by active 17th century Simon Du Cros

About the author

Simon Du Cros was a writer active in the 17th century, though biographical details about his life are scarce. Library and authority records identify him as the author of works published under forms of the name Simon Du Cros or Monsieur de Cros.

He is best known today for Letter from Monsieur de Cros (1693), a polemical reply to Sir William Temple's memoirs. The book presents itself as the work of someone tied to major European diplomacy, and it engages directly with disputes over events in the reign of Charles II and the politics surrounding the years 1672 to 1679.

Catalog records also connect his name with earlier French historical writing on Henri II de Montmorency, suggesting that Du Cros worked in both political controversy and historical narrative. Because so little about his personal life is firmly documented, his reputation now rests mostly on the voice of his surviving texts: argumentative, informed, and closely tied to the tensions of his age.