TURPIN DE CRISSÉ (Lancelot) - Mémoires de Montecuculi Généra - Lot 458

TURPIN DE CRISSÉ (Lancelot) - Mémoires de Montecuculi Généralissime des troupes de l'Empereur. Paris, Chez Gissey, 1760; in-12, XL-520 pp, bound in full marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, edges painted red. Montécuculi's Mémoires are divided into three books. The first two contain all his military principles, beginning with the simplest elements and rising by degrees to the most sublime ideas. The third contains his Réflexions sur les guerres de Hongrie, from 1660 to 1664, when Raimondo Montecuculi won the memorable battle of Saint-Gothard against the Turks. Lancelot Turpin de Crissé has mostly confined himself to explaining his author's work; but although he is deeply respectful of this great general's talents, he does not feel obliged to agree with him at all times, and he refutes him in what he says is inaccurate or erroneous. It is more than possible that a cannonball fired by Montecuculi killed Marshal de Turenne. Raimondo Montecuculi would then have cried out: "He died today, a man who did honor to Man! Expert: Mr. Philippe HENRY