BROGLIE, FRANOIS-MARIE, 1ST DUKE (1ER DUC) DE

born Jan. 11, 1671 died May 22, 1745 general and marshal of France during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV. He served continuously in the War of the Spanish Succession and again in Italy in 173335, being made marshal of France in 1734. In 1742, during the War of the Austrian Succession, he was appointed to command the French army in Germany, but he had always been the man of small means, safe, cautious, and lacking in daring. His only success was in the action of Sahay in Bohemia on May 2425, 1742, for which he was created Duke de Broglie in the following June.