Antoine de Pas

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Antoine de Pas, Marquis de Feuquières (born April 16, 1648 in Paris ; † January 27, 1711 ibid) was a French military leader in the 17th century. He wrote down his experiences as a book author at the beginning of the 18th century.

Life

The nobleman came from an old Artois family, known since the time of the Crusades , which got its name from the town of Pas in what is now the Pas-de-Calais department . She ruled Feuquières . Antoine was the son of Isaac de Pas, Marquis de Feuquières .

Antoine entered the regiment of King Louis XIV at the age of 18 and took part in the campaign of 1667 in the War of Devolution . After the siege of Lille , where he was wounded, he received the rank of Capitaine (captain). From 1672 to 1673 the Marquis was active as adjutant to the Marshal of Luxembourg in military operations. After the siege of Oudenaarde in 1674, he was given command of a royal naval regiment. Two years later he was entrusted with his own regiment, which existed as the Regiment de Feuquières from 1676 to 1700 and was later renamed the 15th Infantry Regiment .

Feuquière's career continued under Turenne and François de Créquy , with the conquest of Bouchain in what is now the northern department in 1676 , where he was able to distinguish himself through bravery. In the Battle of Saint-Denis (1678) in 1678, the last of the Franco-Dutch War , he defended the royal headquarters against the English. As a brigadier, he was involved in the siege of Philippsburg ten years later . In devastation campaigns he then made rich booty in Swabia and Franconia.

Promoted to major general in 1689, the Marquis fought the rebellious Waldensians in Piedmont under Nicolas de Catinat . In the course of this action, Feuquières gained the nickname “Magician”. However, it was not possible to take Balsiglia , where the Waldensians had evaded. In 1691 he was transferred to the French army in Germany, where the War of the Palatinate Succession took place. He defended himself in 1692 on the Speyerbach against a great overwhelming force, became lieutenant general in 1693 and made a significant contribution to the French victory in the battle of Neer winds on July 29, 1693 under their general Marshal of Luxembourg.

Having made many enemies by his presumptuous and selfish character, he fell from grace and remained without command after the Peace of Rijswijk (1697). Marshal Villeroi was less impressed by the performance of the regiment than his deceased old commander, Luxembourg.

memoirs

Feuquières saw the resumption of the war in 1701 without him with displeasure and consequently withdrew, also bitter about the withholding of the marshal's baton. He used this time to write down thoughts on the arts of war, the first notable French work on the arts of war . Voltaire benefited from this in his work Le Siècle de Louis XIV.

Feuquière's memoirs became a respectable standard work for soldiers in the 17th century, as they covered all kinds of martial arts and military service in great detail.

The Mémoires sur la guerre first appeared in the year of his death and were soon reprinted in new editions (Paris 1711, 1725, 1735 and others, London 1736, Amsterdam subsequently). An English translation under the title Memoirs of the Marquis de Feuquieres appeared in London in 1737. A German translation under the title Feuquieres secret messages was published in Leipzig in 1732 and 1738 and in Berlin in 1786.

The memoranda of Feuquière were so important to the Prussian King Frederick the Great that he gave them to his officers to read and ordered them to be read to the cadets at their meals.

His Mémoires sur la guerre , published by his nephew in Paris in 1770 (4 volumes), are an important source for the history of war in the 17th century.

Works

  • Feuquiere (A. de Pas Marquis): War news. A free translation of the latest edition of this work. With notes and improved plans from a royal. Prussian officer . 2 volumes. JF Unger, Berlin 1786.
  • Feuquieres (A. de Pas Marquis): Secret and strange war messages from the Margrave of Feuquieres . 2 parts. Weidmann , Leipzig 1738. Digitized ETH Library Zurich
  • Feuquiere (A.de Pas Marquis): Memoires de M. Le Marquis de Feuquiere, Lieutenant-General Des Armees du Roi; Contenans ses Maximes sur la Guerre, & L'application des Exemples aux Maximes. Various editions and other digital copies (edition from 1775) at Bibliothèque nationale de France

literature

Individual evidence

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  1. ↑ Annual reports for German history http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:aVqwgOEhU40J:194.95.188.39:8080/JDG/browse%3Fid%3DJRE0620%26year%3D1930+Feuquieres&hl=de&gl=de&ct_de&hl=de&gl=de&ct=clnk& = UTF-8 {{dead link | date = 2018-03 | archivebot = 2018-03-30 05:19:22 InternetArchiveBot | url = http: //209.85.135.104/search? Q = cache% 3AaVqwgOEhU40J% 3A194.95.188 .39% 3A8080% 2FJDG% 2Fbrowse% 3Fid% 3DJRE0620% 26year% 3D1930 + Feuquieres & hl = de & gl = de & ct = clnk & cd = 30 & lr = lang_de & ie = UTF-8}} (link not available)
  2. ↑ Hans Delbrück : History of the art of war . Part 2: The Modern Age . ISBN 3-937872-42-6 , p. 399
personal data
SURNAME Pas, Antoine de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feuquières, Antoine de Pas Marquis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1711
Place of death Paris