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Claude Louis Hector de Villars, 1st Duke of Villars

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he received the Saint-Esprit order and the title of duke. Friedlingen and Hochstadt were barren victories, and the campaigns of which they formed were characterised by lost opportunities. Villars' career culminated from 1709 onwards when France, close to total defeat, managed to survive.
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lines, and the power of the defence seemed to be broken. But Louis made a last effort, the English contingent and its leader were withdrawn from the enemy's camp, and Villars, though still recovering from his Malplaquet wounds, outmanoeuvred and decisively defeated EugĂšne at
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calls him. He was indeed boastful, and also covetous of honours and wealth. But he was also described as an honourable man of high courage, moral and physical, and certainly a very skilled soldier. He was famous for his love for young men as wrote
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in September 1709, in which Villars was gravely wounded (by a musketball to the knee), he was able to tell the king: "If God grants us the grace to lose such a battle again, Your Majesty can count on all of his enemies being destroyed".
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The memoirs, part of which was published in 1734 and afterwards several times republished in untrustworthy versions, were for the first time completely edited by
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Two more campaigns passed without a battle and with scarcely any advance on the part of the invaders, but at last Marlborough
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on the northern frontier. During the famine of the winter he shared the soldiers' rations. When the campaign opened the old
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He returned to France in 1690 and was given a command in the cavalry of the army in Flanders, but towards the end of the
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For a vivid description of Claude Louis Hector de Villars' stay during the Baden peace conference see:
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Villars played a conspicuous part in the politics of the Regency period as the principal opponent of
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This victory saved France, though the war dragged on for another year, where Villars led the
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volunteered to serve under him, but they were unable to prevent the Allies from capturing
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and was restored by François Voinchet, Architect of Historic Monuments and is now the
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On 1 February 1702, he married Jeanne Angélique Roque with whom he had a son:
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The next promotion would take time in spite of a long record of service under
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Histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'Ă  la mort de Louis XVI
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was used as a cavalry barracks. It was partially destroyed during
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In the interval between the Dutch wars and the formation of the
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French military personnel of the War of the Polish Succession
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In that year he was called to command the main army opposing
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Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince of Martigues, Marquis
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French army commanders in the War of the Spanish Succession
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Coat of Arms of duc de Villars in Vaux-le-Vicomte castle
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Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal-Duke of Villars
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As a result of his contribution, his title was granted
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Marshal Villars and the War of the Spanish Succession
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It was Villars' part in the next war, beginning with
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Index

Claude Louis Hector de Villars
Marshal General
GE

Hyacinthe Rigaud
Secretary of State for War
Louis XV
Daniel Voysin de la Noiraye
Claude le Blanc
Moulins
Kingdom of France
Turin
Kingdom of Sardinia
Honoré Armand de Villars
Pierre de Villars

France
French Army
Marshal General
Franco-Dutch War
Siege of Maastricht
Battle of Seneffe
Nine Years' War
War of the Camisards
War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Friedlingen
First Battle of HöchstÀdt
Battle of Malplaquet
WIA
Battle of Denain

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