Villars
Proper noun
Meaning
Villars (plural Villarses)
A surname from French.
Villars
plural of Villar
Examples
Afterwards, his general Marshal Villars managed to turn the tide in favour of France.
Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 105 In the words of Marshal Villars, the French defeat at Ramillies was – "The most shameful, humiliating and disastrous of routs."
Eugene and Villars (who had been old friends since the Turkish campaigns of the 1680s) initiated talks on 26 November.
The Dutch, Austrians, and German states fought on to strengthen their own negotiating position, but defeated by Marshal Villars they were soon compelled to accept Anglo-French mediation.
The victory could not save the increasingly hostile relationship between the two generals, and Marshal Marsin replaced Villars in theatre.
Villars attempted to interest Don Carlos of Parma in joining the expedition against Mantua, but Carlos was focused on the campaign into Naples.