1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EUGENE OF SAVOY [FRANCOIS EUGENE], PRINCE (16631736), fifth son of Prince Eugene Maurice of Savoy-Carignano, count of Soissons, and of Olympia Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin, was born at Paris on the i8th of October 1663 . Originally destined for the church, Eugene was known at court as the petit abbe, but his own predilection was strongly for the army. His mother, however, had fallen into disgrace at court, and his application for a commission, repeated more than once, was refused by Louis XIV. This, and the i…
- Source status
- OCR text aligned to scanned pages
- Pages
- Vol. 9, pp. 882-884