Maurice de Saxe
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Maurice de Saxe was a prominent soldier, general and military theorist in the first half of the 18th century. The illegitimate son of Augustus II the Strong, he initially served in the Army of the Hol
Maurice de Saxe as a Marshal of France by Jean-Étienne Liotard
The Battle of Lauffeld by Auguste Couder, 1836. 2 July 1747: Louis XV pointing out the village of Lawfeld to Maurice
Funerary monument of Maurice de Saxe in Saint Thomas Church, Strasbourg
Marie-Aurore de Saxe
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Marie-Aurore de Saxe, known after her first marriage as Countess of Horn and after the second as Madame Dupin de Francueil, was an illegitimate daughter of Marshal Maurice de Saxe and a grandmother of
Maurice de Saxe
…who at that time was only eighteen years old. In 1748 she gave birth to a daughter, the last of Maurice's several illegitimate children. She was called Maria Aurora (in French: Marie Aurore) after her grandmother. She bore the surname de la Rivière until 1766 when the Parlement of Paris formally recognized her…
Marie-Aurore de Saxe as Diana. Portrait attributed to Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, ca. 1777. Currently displayed in the Musée de la Vie Romantique, Paris.
Marie Rinteau de Verrières, Marie-Aurore's mother.
Petition sent in the name of Marie-Aurore to the Dauphine, born Maria Josepha of Saxony, 1755.
Marie-Aurore de Saxe dressed as a shepherdess, ca. 1770.