biography
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Luxembourg, François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de (Duke of)
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pronunciation:
[lüksãboor]
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| lived:
| (1628–95)
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| biography:
| French soldier, born in Paris, France. A hunchback and of small stature, he was brought up by his aunt, mother of the Great Condé, prepared for a military career, and adhered to Condé through the wars of the Fronde. After 1659 he was pardoned by Louis XIV, who created him Duc de Luxembourg (1661), and in 1667 he served in Franche-Comté, successfully invading Holland in 1672. During the war he stormed Valenciennes, was made a marshal in 1675, commanded in Flanders in 1690, and defeated the Allies at Fleurus in 1690. He twice more routed his old opponent, now King William III of Britain, at Steinkirk (1692) and Neerwinden (1693). |
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