Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611–1675), known as Turenne, was one of France's greatest generals. He trained under his uncle Maurice of Nassau.

In the Thirty Years' War he took Breisach in 1638 and became Marshal of France in 1643. He initially supported the Fronde but returned to royal service in 1651, defeated the Spanish at Arras (1654) and the Dunes (1658), and became Marshal General in 1660.

He converted to Catholicism in 1668. In 1675 he won at Turckheim and maneuvered around the Vosges in winter, driving the Imperials from Alsace, before he was killed by a cannonball at Salzbach.