A Beau Sabreur - Maurice De Saxe, Marshal, of France: His Loves, His, Laurels, and His Times; 1696 1750 #245634

It is not, however, with the career of Saxe, deemed once an immortal captain of the eighteenth century, that we need concern ourselves any more. The echo of the campaigns in which he played so shining a part has long since been stilled. With all their loud-sounding fame the wars of the old régime always ended in a general as you were.