Boufflers, Marquis de, marshal of France, distinguished for his defence of Namur (1695) and of Lille (1708), and his masterly retreat from Malplaquet (1645‒1711).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Boufflers, Chevalier de * Bougainville, Louis Antoine de