Editing Maurice de Saxe (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Intérieur Église St Thomas Strasbourg 114.jpg|thumb|Funerary monument of Maurice de Saxe in Saint Thomas Church, Strasbourg]]

After Maurice de Saxe's death in Chambord, a funerary ceremony was held for him in Paris, but as a Protestant, he could not be buried there. His remains were transported to Strasbourg and temporarily kept at the [[Temple Neuf, Strasbourg|Temple Neuf]]. At [[Louis XV]]'s request, a permanent mausoleum was created by [[Jean-Baptiste Pigalle]] in the [[apse]] of [[St Thomas' Church, Strasbourg]], of which it now marks the focal point. The elaborate monument, under which de Saxe's remains were interred on {{date|1777/08/20}}, shows [[Personifications of death|Death]] holding a sandglass and calling him to the grave while a crying France tries to retain him, and [[Hercules]] weeps on the tomb's side. To the left are France's enemies personnified by three distraught animals: the [[Reichsadler|German eagle]], the [[Dutch Republic Lion|Dutch lion]], and the [[Royal arms of England|British lion]], and their broken flags, while to the right are France's triumphant standards. In the middle stands the heroic marshal holding his [[Baton (military)|baton]], unfazed by his fate. [[Gérard de Nerval]] believed his majestic pose might have inspired the Commendatore's statue in ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', based on the fact that [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] had performed in the church in 1778 shortly after the monument's inauguration.<ref>{{cite web|website=Le Rouge & le Noir |title=Le tombeau du Maréchal de Saxe |date={{date|2014/07/26}} |author=Hans Storck |url=https://www.lerougeetlenoir.org/contemplation/les-contemplatives/strasbourg-le-tombeau-du-marechal-de-saxe}}</ref>

Maurice de Saxe has been the focus of several biographical works. Many previous errors in former biographies were corrected and additional information supplied in Karl von Weber's ''Moritz Graf von Sachsen, Marschall von Frankreich, nach archivalischen Quellen'' [''Moritz Count of Saxony, Marshal of France, according to archival sources''] (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1863), in [[Saint-René Taillandier]]'s ''Maurice de Saxe, étude historique d'après les documents des archives de Dresde'' [''Maurice of Saxe, historical study according to the documents in the archives of Dresden''] (1865) and in {{ill|Karl Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt|de}} ''Maurice de Saxe'' (Leipzig, 1861).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

A biography in English is [[Jon Manchip White]]'s ''Marshal of France: The Life and Times of Maurice, Comte de Saxe (1696–1750)'' (Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1962). See also the military histories of the period, especially Carlyle's ''Frederick the Great''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He is honoured in the [[Walhalla Memorial]].