The Private Memoirs of an Honorable Man

I Wrote This Novel Last But In Fact It Is The First Volume Of What Had Now Become The Enlightenment Quartet.I Look Upon Memoirs As An Introductory Novel To The Series. It Covers An Extended Period From The Late 17Th To The Early-Mid 18Th Century. What Happens In This Novel Chronologically Precedes The Three Others And It Also Fills In A Lacuna. In A Sense It Wraps Itself Around The Second Volume.The Four Novels Are In Different Formats: Memoirs Are Well Memoirs. Hotel Transylvania The Next Volume Is A Straightforward Narrative. Child Of Europe Is Largely In Letters. The Last An Outsider Among The Thespians Is A Narrative Again.The Quartet Deals With Wars Exile European Outreach Art And Music. The Protagonists Are Diplomats Generals Refugees Aristocrats Missionaries Artists Men And Women. My Overall Aim Was To Evoke My Favorite Century From Various Viewing Angles. Of Course The Quartet Presents Only A Small Portion Of The Times In Which It Is Set. The Enlightenment Reached Its Apex In The 18Th Century. Then Two Revolutions One Political And One Industrial Irrevocably Changed Europe. And As They Say Progress Cannot Be Reversed.. P.S.A Volume Entitled Memoirs Of Prince Eugene Appeared In London In 1811. It Turned Out To Be A Well-Meaning Forgery By The Prince De Ligne I Would Like To Repeat Once Again That This Novel Is Fiction.