What action by a cardinal’s nephew resulted in: -
[a] the disgraceful death of a senior British officer?
[b] a play in which Faithless loses Picolette?
And – most memorably because it remains in common use to this day –
[c] a sauce to rub egg on the face of England?
Just one action. But my greatest esteem for anyone who unravels all three clues.
Update:Another clue: for the cardinal (not the nephew), an association with The Three Musketeers.
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Admiral Byng was the Senior British officer.
Duc de Richelieu was the cardinal's nephew.
The origins of Mayonnaise are obscure and debated - on a good day, they go back to Rome.
Invented in France in 1756 to commemorate the capture from the English of St Philip's in Mahón, the capital of the island of Minorca off Spain.
One of the two commanders on the French side was Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (who, though this may be just spurious gossip, was known to throw nude dinner parties). His chef invented the sauce there, calling it "sauce mahonnaise."
Same as above, but the chef invented the sauce out of what was to hand at a place where there had just been a siege, rather than necessarily trying to create a special dish to commemorate a victory.
The Duke of Richelieu landed. They were foraging for food. A local farmer on the island who wanted to impress him, but who had only bread, a few eggs, and oil, made up for the Duke a sauce that had been made on the island for many generations: olive egg with egg yolk and a squirt of lemon juice from the trees that grew there. The Duke liked the sauce, and had his chef improve on it; it was further improved by cooks back in Paris.
More likely the sauce had been made for some time in Spain, and was picked up by the chef.
Read more: http://www.cooksinfo.com/mayonnaise#ixzz2QD3QGXCh