Claude Louis Hector de Villars: Enemy

Claude Louis Hector de Villars was Marshal General of France. Explore interesting quotes on enemy.
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“I am going to drive your enemies so far that they shall not again see the banks of the Scheldt; and by a battle on my arrival, to regain all that has been taken from your majesty.”

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Villars to Louis XIV upon departing for the 1709 campaign against the Allies, quoted in Prince Eugene's memoirs
Source: https://ia800303.us.archive.org/11/items/memoirsofprincee00lign/memoirsofprincee00lign.pdf

“If God lets us have the grace of losing such a battle again, Your Majesty can count on all of his enemies being destroyed.”

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Villars to Louis XIV after the Battle of Malplaquet, quoted in Anquetil, Louis-Pierre, Histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la mort de Louis XVI (1819), Paris: Chez Janet et Cotelle, p. 241.

“Do you want to know where Prince Eugene’s real enemies are? They are in Vienna, while mine are in Versailles.”

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Also quoted by Voltaire ("Voulez-vous que je vous dise où sont les vrais ennemis du Prince Eugene? Ils sont à Vienne, et les miens à Versailles.")
Source: https://www.bartleby.com/344/391.html