Chapter 358: Little Eugen
Eugen de Savoy is undoubtedly remarkable when describing the most famous generals of France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - he was born into a prominent family of Savoy, but had an unhappy childhood, his mother died in a terrible accident when he was three years old, his father Count of Soissons immediately married a new wife, and his stepmother came from a humble background, but she had a deep relationship with her father, and had several children in succession. Eugen the Younger was sent to his grandmother and later to the Palace of Versailles at the age of nine to be raised by the Queen, who was on good terms with the Dauphin and King Ludwig II of Poland, Duke of Colonna, then Duke of Angian the Younger.
It is particularly noteworthy that until this young man was canonized as a field marshal for his military exploits, and his king Louis XIV repeatedly demanded that he not enter the church, nor did he have any children, there were unbelievable rumors that Prince Eugen had once been in love with Louis XIV's eldest princess Elisabeth, and after being rejected, he gave up the pursuit of love and marriage, but not many people were willing to believe it, and the young men who were in love with the eldest princess at that time were enough to go from Versailles to Vienna, but they were also well aware of their obligations and powers, and the loss of love did not affect their marriage and childrenγ
Prince Eugen never married, nor did he have any children, legal or illegitimate.
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This is a long time later, and the current princess is still just a pure girl, and little Eugen is only an adult.
The invitation of the eldest princess was sent by the crown prince, and at the age of twelve, little Eugen had completed all the courses of the junior school and became a new student at the Royal Military Academy, and unlike the first academies, which were almost entirely commissioned officers and excellent soldiers, they were as young as young trees in spring, striving to meet all that God had given them, whether it was sunshine or rain.
"Let's go to the Grand Canal. Princess Celestia said that little Eugen followed her, and they walked silently until they walked to the canal, the canal was sparkling, and the river and sky in spring seemed to be dyed with a layer of new shoots of emerald green, indescribably bright and moving, which made people feel comfortable at first sight, but compared to the calm Celestial Princess, little Eugen's heart was full of despair and bitterness.
How strange it is that people are like this, knowing that what is about to come will be a bleak storm, but always holding on to a glimmer of hope, as if the next moment the sun will tear through the dark clouds and cast a warm light on themselves.
Little Eugen respectfully served the eldest princess on the boat, this kind of Venetian boat was specially purchased by the queen from Italy, it was a kind of scenery, but also a means of transportation, and there was also the fact that when the people in the Palace of Versailles only wanted to talk alone, and did not want to be eavesdropped, they would take this kind of boat, and it would take half an hour to go from the end of the canal to the end of the lake, which was enough time for them to finish what they wanted to say.
Even though he mustered up the courage to step on the boat, little Eugen found that he still couldn't be the first to speak. So, a few minutes later, Princess Celestia asked, "Talk to me, Eugen, this may be the last time we'll see each other." β
"Your Highness. Little Eugen said that he looked at Celestia, who did not wear a wide-brimmed hat to-day, but used a delicate parasol to block out the excessively strong light, and the soft light hit her face, making her countenance look like pearls floating in the morning light, and her hair was simply coiled up, just to not be rude with pearls and diamonds, and without earrings and necklaces, a gesture that often only occurs in the presence of family, family, little Eugen once longed for family, but now he hated the term.
"I want to know," asked little Eugen, "you said before, the last, if not the last?"
"And where do you want to go with me?" asked the eldest princess rhetorically, "Sweden? But my father, your king has already said that he will not let the French go to Sweden with me, and that all that I have, except my soul and body, will remain in France, and that I will accept whatever the Swedish people have given me and become their queen, and from that day on I will no longer be a princess of France." β
"If you say that you do not allow a Frenchman to go to Sweden with you," said little Eugen, while involuntarily clenching the oars: "What about an Austrian?"
Princess Celestia raised her eyebrows dangerously: "Don't say it," she said sternly, "Don't say it, don't tell me that you have such a plan!"
"Leopold I has not been able to have a healthy male descendant to this day," said little Eugen, holding the oar in his hand and eagerly, in one breath, "I am an adult, I am healthy, though a little short, I, I, I will go up to him, and tell him that my mother is Olympia, that he has seen me, and that I remember him, and that he once held me on his knees, and called me his son, and that I would like to recognize him, and also ask him to recognize me, that I might at least get the title of duke...... I ......"
"Smack!"
A slap in the face knocked back the rest of his words!,
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