Sir Luke de Crane unfortunately forgot an important portrait in his Figures of Note of Paris 1648, that of mylsef, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Rouvroy,_duc_de_Saint-Simon
I highly recommend that you read my “Memoirs of XIV and His Court and of the Regency”.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3875
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1332
It is rather long (you can find version with some selection)… but it is is considered as “one of the least-read masterpieces of the age”. It had a huge influence on writters such as Proust, Flaubert, Tolstoi, etc.