“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.

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