Maurice Comte de Saxe et Marie-Josèphe de Saxe Dauphine de France, Lettres et Documents inédits des Archives de Dresde, publiés par C.F. Vitzthum d'Eckstaedt. First edition.
Leipzig: Denicke, 1867. Large 8vo. 15 x 23.6 cm. Original qtr. morocco with gilt spine.
xxvi pages, 1 leaf, 525, [1] pages 1 folded facsimile 25 cm..OCLC Number
7049737....
Subjects:
Maria Josepha Frankreich, Dauphine 1731-1767; Sachsen, Moritz von 1696-1750...
Author: Le président de la Société saxonne de la Croix-Rouge, Otto Comte Vizthum von Eckstädt, est décédé, ainsi que nous l'avons annoncé, le 17 décembre 1917.Il a été le promoteur le plus distingué de la Croix-Rouge saxonne. Ses qualités de cœur et d'esprit le qualifiaient excellemment pour la direction de celte œuvie aux vastes ramifications. Il possédait un sentiment très net du devoir, une décision rapide, et le don, rare à ce degré, de savoir inspirer à ses collaborateurs une joie au travail sans cesse renouvelée.
Britannica: Maurice, count de Saxe (count of) , (born Oct. 28, 1696, Goslar, Saxony [Germany] -died Nov. 30, 1750, Chambord, Fr.), general and military theorist who successfully led French armies during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48)....
The illegitimate son of the elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (later also King Augustus II of Poland), young Maurice was sent by his father to serve under Prince Eugene of Savoy against the French in Flanders in 1709–10. In 1711 he was made Graf von Sachsen (count of Saxony; in French, comte de Saxe). His father bought him a German regiment in the French service in 1719, and Saxe quickly won recognition for his innovations in military training, especially in musketry.....
J.M. White: Marshal Saxe is one of the forgotten figures of the first half of the eighteenth century; yet not only is he one of its most vivid personalities but one of its outstanding generals. He takes his place among the great mercenary soldiers of a military age: Schomburg, Schulenburg and Prince Eugene in the west, Keith and Lacy in the east; and there is leason to rate him even more highly than any of these and compare his achievements with those of Marlborough. At the close of his career Louis XV revived for him the splendid title of Marshal-General of the King’s Camps and Armies, a title that had been borne previously only by the legendary Turenne...Expertise by Jean-Paul VEYSSIÈRE, Manoir de Bellay 37370 MARRAY. Item #51-5304
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