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    Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince of Martigues, Marquis then (1st) Duke of Villars, Viscount of Melun (French pronunciation: [klod lwi ɛktɔʁ də vilaʁ]...
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    Boufflers offered to serve under his junior, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal-Duke of Villars, and was with him at the Battle of Malplaquet....
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    Claude Louis Hector de Villars and of Jeanne Angélique Rocque, and the grandson of Pierre de Villars. In 1721, he married Amable-Gabrielle de Villars...
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  • Villars-le-Grand Villars-le-Terroir Villars-Mendraz Villars-Sainte-Croix Villars-sous-Champvent Villars-sous-Yens Villars-Tiercelin Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653–1734)...
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    The Treaty of Rastatt was negotiated by Marshal of France, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, and the Austrian Prince Eugene of Savoy. The treaty is associated...
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    nephew of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. He learned the art of war from Claude Louis Hector de Villars. He distinguished himself during the Siege of Lille (1708),...
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    Siege of Douai (1710) (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    that halfway through the French army under marshal Claude Louis Hector de Villars, 1st Duke of Villars made an attempt to relieve the fortress city, which...
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    First Battle of Höchstädt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    der Donau in Bavaria, a combined Franco-Bavarian force under Claude Louis Hector de Villars defeated an Imperial army led by Hermann Otto II of Limburg...
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  • d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (1611–1675): Marshal, 16 November 1643 Marshal General, 4 April 1660 Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars (1653–1734): Marshal...
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    War of the Camisards (category Louis XIV)
    Camisard losses numbered 20. Louis XIV responded by dismissing Montrevel and replaced him with marshal Claude Louis Hector de Villars.[citation needed] In April...
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    of France, previously held only by Turenne, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, and Maurice de Saxe.[citation needed] As Minister of War (1830 to 1834),...
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    – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (b. 1647) June 17 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653) June 21 – Marie-Joseph Angélique...
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  • Cazet de Vautorte 1658–1674: Robert de Gravel 1679–1688: Louis de Verjus 1716–1723: Jacques-Vincent Languet de Gergy 1726–1730: Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny...
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  • Nicolas Soult Louis Jules Trochu Henri de Turenne Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire Claude Louis Hector de Villars Maxime Weygand O.P. (Ordo Praedicatorum)...
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    son, she decided to put Vaux-le-Vicomte up for sale. Marshal Claude Louis Hector de Villars became the new owner without first seeing the château. In 1764...
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    French force under Villars defeated an Imperial army commanded by Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden. The battle was initiated when Louis William captured...
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    besieged and taken by French troops under the command of Marshall Claude Louis Hector de Villars. The restitution of the fortress to the Holy Roman Empire was...
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  • victory at Torroella, duc de Noailles took Palamós, Girona, Hostalric and Castellfollit de la Roca. Claude Louis Hector de Villars 1653–1734 French The last...
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    Jean-Baptiste Faure, opera singer Samuel Paty, slain teacher Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653–1734), Marshal General of France Gilbert Mercier (1957)...
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    under Marshal Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars on 20 September 1703. In the campaign of 1704 the Prussian contingent served first under Louis William, Margrave...
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  • Camisards (category Louis XIV)
    from Roussillon hired as mercenaries by the King. In 1704, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, the royal commander, offered vague concessions to the Protestants...
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    Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar, Scottish peer (d. 1712) May 8 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (d. 1734) May 21 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen...
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  • essayist, poet, playwright, and politician (b. 1672) 1734 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general and politician, French Secretary of State for...
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    Such viscounts include Honoré Armand de Villars and Claude Louis Hector de Villars. Melun is served by the Gare de Melun, which is an interchange station...
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    the Battle of Höchstädt (1704), when the French army under Claude Louis Hector de Villars defeated the imperial armies; he was soon exchanged. In 1705...
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  • by Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden in 1703 to defend Breisach to the last man against a French attack under Claude Louis Hector de Villars. The...
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  • Nicolaes Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1717) 1653 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d...
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  • Jean-François de Chamillart, 1702–1714, ecclesiastic Claude Louis Hector de Villars, 1714–1734, politician and soldier Honoré Armand de Villars, 1734–1770...
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    a petition by André Falquet - who spoke French - to Marshal Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, who was commanding the French troops in Bavaria at the time...
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    her allies, most particularly on the Danube, where Marshal Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars and Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, had created a...
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