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Marshal of France
Døbt navnet Moritz, som illigitim søn af Aurora af Königsmarck og August den Stærke, kurfyrste af Sachsen og konge af Polen, tog han tidligt navnet Maurice de Saxe. Blev ansat under den franske konge Louis XV, hvor han hurtigt forfremmedes til marskal og var den ansvarlige for, at Frankrig vandt de mange slag i den periode. Forfatteren fortæller en hel del om bastioner, glacis, barbetter og paralleller m.v., mere end om de slag marskallen førte. Bogen er skrevet i romanform.
Marshal Of France; The Life And Times Of Maurice, Comte De Saxe, 1699-1750
MAURICE DE SAXE was the brilliant adornment of a brilliant age, one of the most renowned and admired men in the Europe of his day. It is not surprising that the writing of the biography of this vivid, talented and entertaining figure should have provided the author with a genial and absorbing task. He came of extraordinary stock; the circumstances of his birth were remarkable; he was the lover of many celebrated women; he won the lifelong friendship of men of the stature of Voltaire; he aspired to a crown, and nearly became the Czar of Russia; his activities spanned a whole continent, from Paris to Dresden, from Dresden to Warsaw, from Warsaw to Moscow. Yet he was more, much more, than an en...
