Note 504 — Chapter XX
Henry Vizetelly translation
Nicholas de Catinat, Marshal of France in 1698. “He united,” says Voltaire, “philosophy to great military talents. The last day he commanded in Italy, he gave for the watchword, ‘Paris and Saint-Gratien,’ the name of his country-house. He died there in the retirement of a real sage (having refused the blue ribbon), in 1712.”—(G. Agar Ellis.)