He soon left us, and after the Opera I saw him with the Duke of Haverfield, one of the most incorrigible roues of the day, leading out a woman of notoriously bad character and of the most ostentatious profligacy.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
To conclude, the obscure, and for the most part blackguard company, which he ordinarily frequented in his debauches, and which he did not scruple publicly to call his roues, drove away all decent people, and did him infinite harm.
"The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 10 And His Court and of The Regency"
Duc de Saint-Simon
I had, in my residence at Paris, among half wits and whole roues, contracted a certain-not exactly grossierete-but want of refinement-a certain coarseness of expression and idea which, though slight, and easily thrown off, took in some degree from my approach to that character which I wished to become.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009