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"Baron Litron"
Notice historique History of the song about Baron Leutrum Karl Sigismond Frederick Willeim Leutrum (Karlhaunsen, Baden, 27 june 1692 &endash;Cuneo 16 may 1755) was probably the best field commanding officier of the sabaudian army in XVIII century. He fought during Austrian Succesion War; his best performance were the defence of Cuneo in 1744 and the counter offensive against a composite french-spanish arm under the able Maillebois in 1746. At the end of the war he was promoted Governor of the City of Cuneo. A Regiment of German Infantry, Burgsdorf, became Regiment Leutrum. Protestant, he didn't want to become catholic. So, after his death, he was buried at Torre Pellice, in the Waldesian Valleys. His coffin was transferred from Cuneo to Torre Pellice in the heart of the Alps by the soldier of his Regiment Leutrum. Beloved by the citizens of Cuneo, the piemontese people in general and, first of all, by his soldiers people, a song about Leutrum and his "great refusal" to become catholic, was soon composed. Musique
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