the reputations of the Hamilton brothers had suffered terminal damage with the French. Hamilton fought in the cavalry at the battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690. He also took part in the Siege of Limerick (1690) and when William had to raise the siege in autumn, Tyrconnell sent him to France to report the victory. He does not seem to have returned to Ireland and was absent at the Battle of Aughrim on 12 July 1691 where his youngest brother, John, was mortally wounded. Final French exile, death, and timeline Hamilton spent the last thirty years of his life mainly at the court of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, with visits to the châteaux of his friends and to Les Moulineaux, his sister Elizabeth's house at Versailles. From his years in Ireland he was a friend of the Duke of Berwick. He became an especial favourite with Ludovise, duchesse du Maine, and it was at her seat at Sceaux that he wrote the Mémoires that made him famous. In 1701 he accompanied Berwick on a mission to Rome to obtain the support of the new pope, Clement XI, for the Jacobite cause. In May 1703 his sister Elizabeth was given a house called Les Moulineaux, where he visited her often and which became a centre of his social world. In 1707 his friend Gramont died. On 3 June 1708 his sister Elizabeth, the comtesse de Gramont died in Paris. He never married and died at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 20 April 1719. Works Antoine Hamilton is mainly known for a single book: the Mémoires du Comte de Grammont. After this followed some shorter works among which the four short stories: Le Bélier, Fleur d'Epine, Zénéyde, and Les quatre Facardins. Memoirs Anthony Hamilton wrote the Mémoires du Comte de Gramont between 1704 and 1710 at the age of 59 to 65. This work made Hamilton one of the classical writers of France. The tone of the work, however, is now thought equivocal. By highlighting the brilliance of the London Restoration court, the book threw into relief the lacklustre nature of the exiled Stuart court. It has even been said to share something with the anti-jacobite polemic written against the court of James II at St Germain by John Macky. The book starts with the sentence (as translated by Horace Walpole): As those who read only for amusement are, in my opinion, more