Later generations of people who wrote a biography of Prince Eugen de Savoy were often confronted with several problems, either because they could not get a definitive answer, or because they were likely to be perceived by Prinz's admirers as deliberately denigrating or ridiculing this great military strategist.

Two of the most criticized issues are that although Prince Eugen was so successful in his war that he was generously granted the title of prince by Louis XIV even after giving up his primogeniture, he did not have a publicly recognized marriage, either a lover or a child, until his old age. There was even a time when it was doubtful that Louis XIV had deliberately avoided an overly prestigious leader in his court and army, but it turned out that Louis XIV had promised him more than once that whatever woman Prince Eugen wanted to marry, as long as she was born innocent or not so innocent, His Majesty would be willing to knight her if he wanted to, so that she could be with Prince Eugen openly and legally.

But such a suggestion was undoubtedly rejected by Prince Eugen, and his attendants, as well as the king's chamberlain, Bonton, and the Duchess of Montpensier, and other court insiders, in their autobiographies and biographies of Versailles, also mentioned that the prince did not seem to have fallen in love with anyone, and even if a noble lady was willing to throw him the flower of love, he would only indifferently step back, allowing the delicate petals to crumble at his feet.

He had no children, and eventually he returned and gifted his title and domain, as well as most of his assets, to his close friend, who would become King Louis XV of France, and some fragmentary and commemorative medals, jewels, and reliquaries, etc., which were given to several friends, most of whom were related to the Bourbon royal family, after all, he stayed at Versailles from the age of nine to fourteen, and grew up with princes and princesses. Hundreds of years later, the gifts of the world-famous generalissimo to his friends can be seen in the National Museums of Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

Originally, there should have been such a treasure in the Royal Museum of Sweden - Prince Eugen gave the then Queen of Sweden, the eldest princess of France, Elisabeth, a reliquary, which contained a strand of hair that is said to be the saint Nikolai, whether it is known whether it is unknown or not, because when the Queen of Sweden (Queen Mother) died, several things were buried with her, a portrait of her husband, the baby teeth of the children, a letter from her father Louis XIV (mainly a letter congratulating the birth of the child), and this reliquary.

It's not that no one has speculated whether there is a simple and painful emotional story between the two, but except for the years at Versailles, since Prince Eugen entered the army and Princess Elizabeth married into the Swedish royal family, they have never met again, except for the last reliquary, there is no trace of any correspondence or messenger communication on their behalf.

Another incident, occasionally mentioned to friends and relatives by an officer of the Count of Soissons, said that Prince Eugen's first battle was not in the Great League War of 1682, as one might think, but in the first year of his entry into the French army as a young boy, and even the first month of his first month, with the rebellious mob in the town of Kings in Lorraine.

The authenticity of the war is questioned simply because there is no record of the battle – there were indeed some sporadic rebellions in Lorraine-Alsace during this period, but it was harmless, and the proud Sun King even gathered all his generals and marshals to celebrate the French victory over the Ottomans all night at the Palace of Versailles, sending only the first batch of students who had graduated from the Royal Military Academy to crush the poor dross.

Because of the strict requirements and audits of the military system, ordinances and written records by the Sun King and Monsieur Kirbert and the Marquis de l'Ois, later generations did find the name of Prince Eugen on some documents, of course, he was not a prince at that time, and later the Duke of Vendôme, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, and the Count of Soissons as commander, that is, the father of Prince Eugen, according to the time on paper, Prince Eugen was only fourteen years old at that time, such an age, although he can be called an adult, but there was still some time before he could speak, and this was the first time he left Paris and Versailles.

Scholars agree that Prince Eugen should have been an observer in the battle, and that the Count of Soissons could not have allowed him to command an army or go to war, as the records seem to prove it, but what the officer's relatives wrote caused an uproar.

For, in this record, the officer, who was the captain of the grenadiers, clearly pointed out that when Prince Eugen and the grandson of the Duke of Vendôme, who were at that time Monsieur Eugen, who were still Monsieur Eugen the Younger, had discovered a group of Austrian mercenaries of about fifteen hundred men, and while they were resting in a valley less than a thousand feet from the King's Town, where they were located, it was Monsieur Eugen the Younger, who had refused the order of the Count of Soissons to retreat to the King's Town, and insisted on marching on his own initiative to attack the enemy— His method was to collect all the coal tar from the glass factory, put it in a water bladder, and it was up to him, along with two or three hundred brave grenadiers, to carry it up to the cliffs on either side of the valley, and then throw it from the top, and set it on fire.

Coal tar was a very flammable viscous liquid, and it was early spring, and there were far more dry branches and leaves in the valley than the newly sprouted sprouts, and the narrow valley floor was immediately abusing, and the officer described to his relatives that at both ends of the valley our soldiers were waiting, and those who rushed out were killed, and those who remained in the valley— He didn't know how to describe it, he only knew that when the fire grew smaller, and the smoke was blown away by the wind, and when they walked in, his feet were burned by the ground, even through the thick soles of his cowhide boots, and the burned people and the plants and trees were all blended together, and it was impossible to see what the black pile was, and the air was filled with a strange smell of choking, and they were followed by the priest, who threw holy water into the air, and as soon as it touched the ground, it turned into a little steam......

He and the other soldiers were ordered to open the "things", he didn't think there were any living people inside, and the whole canyon was black — one of his friends had found a corpse that exploded with a thud as it was turned over, and the hot debris inside splattered him and his friend all over the face - and they almost went crazy.

When they had done this, soldiers moved in those who had been lucky enough to run out of the valley but still survived, their bodies burned to the point of twisting and charred black......

Such a terrible thing made every participant want to forget it as soon as possible, and the Count of Soissons also hoped that they would keep silent, and the officer had only occasionally mentioned it to his relatives after drinking after thirty years of retirement and when he was about to go to God.

War has always been the most brutal, as it is said, death may be just a number, but such a death - for the people of the time, not bright enough, not moral, not even romantic enough (yes, this is the French), this is the French admirers, because Prince Eugen has always had a "gentleman on the battlefield" during his fifty years of career as a horse He was willing to respect not only his friends, but also his enemies, and never resorted to unnecessary harm and killing, and it is truly sensational to say that when he was a boy of fourteen, he did not hesitate to burn more than a thousand people to death in a narrow valley.

The rebuttals they put forward were not made out of nothing, first: the relatives of this officer, who were also the recorders of this tragic incident, fortunately but unfortunately, he was not an ordinary person, he was a famous writer, and before hearing about this incident, he had already had several good works that made people cry, and in the process of recording, of course, he could not be as observable and rational as a pure recorder, and he even wrote from the officer's point of view, so that while greatly enhancing the appeal of this record, it also greatly reduced its authenticity and credibility。

Two: There is no record of this incident in Versailles, Paris and Lorraine, and anyone went to the local area to search for the canyon where 1,500 people were buried, but found nothing - after the rebellion in Lorraine was assessed, Louis XIV decided on the glass and steel industry, so with the town of the Kings as the center, the French used gunpowder to blow up the surrounding rocky mountains for several miles, which had long since become a fortified city.

3. Hundreds of years later, there are still people who try to find evidence that this happened, using metal detectors, and things that are completely incomprehensible to ordinary people—because in that record, no one took away the weapons or ornaments of the deceased, the money bags, and the guns mentioned by the officers, so even if the canyon was intentionally buried, then these things must still exist.

They got nothing.

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Nothing was a matter of course, for Louis XIV, after seeing the report of the battle between Mixin and the Count of Soissons, decided to put the matter down, and a king or duke could impale two hundred heretics in Camnico, but now little Eugen could never afford to burn fifteen hundred men - he did not want such a reputation to follow a fourteen-year-old child, and he also vaguely felt that little Eugen's actions were related to the fact that those soldiers were from Austria.

Years ago he had made sure that little Eugen had not forgotten what had happened before he was three years old, and that he knew that he was not the biological son of Count Soissons, but that his biological father was Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

And Princess Elizabeth.

The king ordered the Count of Soissons to first carry the wreckage and the artillery, etc., to another place, and to bury the valley, to build towns and factories, and to transplant the rapidly growing plants, not to mention fifty years, but in a decade or two, and the people would no longer recognize the original appearance of the place—and he did this with some appreciation in addition to pity for Eugen the Younger. The Count of Soissons did not mention it in his letter, but sent a message from the wizard's raven that he was worried that little Eugen's heart was affected by the Habsburg blood in him—Louis thought that it might not be Leopold I who brought the little Eugen to death, but him.

He used a similar trap against the Ottoman Turks, but with gunpowder, and the trap was placed in the castle, and the results were much more remarkable than the fifteen hundred men of Eugen the Younger—ten thousand. Eugen the Younger rejected the offer of the Count of Soissons and resorted to this seemingly cruel method, which would ensure that his strength would not be compromised to the greatest extent, and in that battle, which could not be called a battle, only a dozen soldiers of the French were wounded.

But it was difficult to convince such stubborn old nobles and generals as the Count of Soissons, so Louis XIV had no more explanation, and his will would have been obeyed anyway.

But this was all later, when the king was reading this letter, Prince Conte was coming to the king with a distinguished guest, Prince Conti was in peace for a long time after his brother suddenly became King Ludwig I of Poland, but seeing that Louis XIV was not angry, and was even happy to see the Bourbon blood extend to the eastern part of Europa, as a distant relative and half brother-in-law of the Sun King (his wife was also a Mancini), he came to life again, and when he saw the king with a smile, he bowed and asked briskly: "My Majesty, is there any good news?"

"Not great news," said Louis XIV, "the children had a small victory in Lorraine." ”

"There are always some self-conscious people, like the clowns," complimented Prince Conte as if singing a poem, "but they know that they are of no use except to make people laugh." ”

Louis XIV nodded gently, "You're right, just some villains. He said, "But is there anything you want to tell me?"

"There is a guest," said Prince Conti, "who wishes to be able to come here to greet you." ”

"He is not supposed to be an ordinary guest," because Prince Conti took him directly outside the king's chambers, and among the people waiting outside Versailles to meet the king was the princes, and the time they had to wait ranged from a day to a month, "but you still have to tell me who he is?"

"Someone who wants to be able to be in-law with you. Prince Conte swept the room from side to side, and when he saw Bontang, he paused, but the chief chamberlain told him with a calm look that he would not leave—he only obeyed the king's orders, and Prince Conte coughed softly twice, "Your Majesty," he said, "it is another king who wants to see you." ”

Before he could say the second sentence, Louis XIV was still wondering which other in-laws he would have—the eldest princess was already the queen of Sweden, the Duke of Colonna was already the son-in-law of Cosimo III, and the next was the marriage of the crown prince Louis the Younger to the princess of Portugal...... By the time Prince Conte finished speaking, he immediately guessed, but he couldn't help but be a little incredulous.

"You mean ......"

"Yes, that is, Your Majesty. Prince Conte said.