Charles-Joseph de Ligne

The prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne , born with Brussels the May 12th 1735 and died in Vienna the December 13rd 1814, is a marshal, Diplomate and the man of letters Belgian, sometimes called “largest of the Walloons”.

Attending the largest courses of Europe, he was good soldier and large tempting women. He is regarded as one of the three large memorialists of the 18th century with Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) and Guiseppe Gorani (1740-1819), and was admired of Goethe, Lord Byron, Barbey d' Aurevilly, Paul Valéry and Paul Morand.

Biography

Wire of Claude-Lamoral II, 6th prince de Ligne, and of Elisabeth, princess of Salm, it has as a godfather and godmother the emperor Charles VI and his Elisabeth wife of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

It loses his mother at the four years age. Until 1755, Etienne of the Door is his governor, to whom it will pay homage in one of his books: “Forming my heart at the same time as my spirit, it all the more acquired rights to my recognition which I believe that if I were worth something, it would be with him that I should”.

At the 15 years age, it writes its first work, Discours on the profession of the weapons . In 1751, his/her father leads it to Vienna and to the emperor François I {{er}} presents it and to the empress Marie-Therese, who does it chamberlain.

August 6th 1755, it marries with Vienna Francoise-Marie-Xavière, princess of Liechtenstein. Engaged in the War Seven Year old, Charles-Joseph de Ligne takes share, inter alia, with the battles of Kolin, Breslau, Leuthen and Hochkirch.

Appointed colonel with the Battle of Kunersdorf, it is sent to Versailles to announce the Austrian victory of Maxen.

He attends Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe Wieland, Germaine of Staël Catherine II of Russia, with which he is in permanent correspondence.

One of its direct descendants is the prince Antoine of Line.

Works

Its complete works count 34 volumes, of which:
  • Letters with Eugenie on the spectacles (1774)
  • Céphalide, or the Other marriages samnites , comedy in music (1777)
  • Prejudged and military Imaginations (1780)
  • Colette and Lucas , comedy in music (1781)
  • Glance on Belœil (1781)
  • military Imaginations (1783)
  • the ridiculous Lover , proverb in prose (1787)
  • military, literary Mixtures and sentimentaires (1795-1811)
  • Memories on the Jews (1795-1811)
  • The Embarrassments , part in an act (handwritten)
  • immoral Tales

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