Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Maurice de Saxe
Born: October 28, 1696
Died: November 20, 1750 (aged 54)
Bio: Maurice, Count of Saxony was a Franco-Saxon soldier in French service who became a Marshal and later also Marshal General of France. He is best known for his decisive victory at the Battle of Fontenoy.