📖 Excerpt from La Journée de FontenoyLe maréchal de Saxe était déjà en Flandre a la tête de l'armée composée de cent six bataillons complets et de cent soixante-douze escadrons. Déjà. Tournai, cette ancienne capitale de la domination française, était investie. La ville et la cita delle étaient encore un des chefs - d'oeuvre du maréchal de Vauban; car il n'y avait guère de place en Flandre dont Louis XIV n'eùt fait construire les fortifications.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.