Louis de Watteville [SEP] conflict
Louis de Watteville
Louis de Watteville (1776–1836), whose name was sometimes germanicised to Abraham Ludwig Karl von Wattenwyl was born in Switzerland but became a major general in the British Army, and fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
Dutch and Austrian service.
His father was an officer in a Swiss mercenary regiment in the service of the Netherlands. No doubt through his influence, Louis fought as a junior officer in the same regiment against Revolutionary France in 1793 also in 1794. When the Netherlands
him to design the sets and costumes for his play "L'État de Siège" ("The State of Siege", directed by Jean-Louis Barrault). Balthus also designed the sets and costumes for Artaud's adaptation for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Cenci" (1935), Ugo Betti's "Delitto all'isola delle capre" (Crime on Goat-Island, 1953) and Barrault's adaptation of "Julius Caesar" (1959–1960).
In 1937 he married Antoinette de Watteville, who was from an influential