War of the Palatinate Succession 1688-97. Destruction of Heidelberg by the French under General Ezechiel Melac, 2 March 1689. "Marauding French soldiers in Heidelberg. - Col. lithograph by Maurice Leloir. (born 1853) from G.Toudouze, Le Roi Soleil, Paris (Combet & Cie), 1904.