In a letter to a friend, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, another bitter rival, who had previously served under him during the wars of Spanish Succession, but whose ambition to obtain command in the Austrian army had been foiled by Eugene, wrote that the prince "has no idea but to fight whenever the opportunity offers; he thinks that nothing equals the name of Imperialists, before whom all should bend the knee. He loves ""la petite débauche et la p----" above all things" That last sentence in French with a word intentionally censored, started speculations. According to writer Curt Riess, it was "a testament to sodomy"; according to Eugene's foremost biographer, German historian Max Braubach, "la p..." meant (fornication), or , ie., Whoring. While Governor-General of the Southern Netherland, Eugene was known to be a regular at an exclusive brothel on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht, the keeper of the place was known as Madame Therese. Eugene once famously brought the English consul in Amsterdam with him. A drawing by Cornelis Troost, kept at the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, depicts a scene in which Prince Eugene had "the 'available' women parade in review, just as he did his own troops" according to the museum, Troost based his drawing on an anecdote circulating at the time.