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Louis, Grand CondFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Louis

Prince of Cond

"le Grand Cond"

Louis byJustus van Egmont

Spouse Claire-Clmence de Maill-Brz

Detail

Issue

Henri Jules, Prince of Cond

Louis, Duke of Bourbon

Mademoiselle de Bourbon

Full name

Louis de Bourbon
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Father Henri, Prince of Cond

Mother Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency

Born 8 September 1621

Paris, France

Died 11 December 1686 (aged 65)

Palace of Fontainebleau,France

Burial glise at Vallry, France

Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Cond (8 September 1621 11 December 1686) was aFrenchgeneral and the

most famous representative of theCondbranch of theHouse of Bourbon. Prior to his father's death in 1646,

he was styled theDuc d'Enghien. For his military prowess he was renowned as le Grand Con d.

Contents

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1 Biography

2 Thirty Years' War

3 The Fronde

4 Rehabilitation

5 Ancestry

6 Issue

7 Titles, styles, honours and arms

o 7.1 Titles and styles

8 Legacy

9 References

10 Sources

[edit]Biography

Louis was born in Paris, the son ofHenri de Bourbon, Prince de CondandCharlotte Marguerite de

Montmorency. His father was a first cousin-once-removed ofHenry IV, the King of France, and his mother was

an heiress of one of France's leadingducalfamilies.
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Conde's father saw to it that his son received a thorough education Louis studiedhistory,law,

andmathematicsduring six years at theJesuits' school atBourges. After that he entered the Royal Academy

at Paris. At seventeen, in the absence of his father, he governedBurgundy.

His father betrothed him toClaire-Clmence de Maill-Brz, niece of the powerfulCardinal Richelieu, chief

minister of the king, before he joined the army in 1640. Despite being barely twenty years of age and in love

with Mlle du Vigean (Marthe Poussard, calledmademoiselle du Vigean, daughter of the king'sgentleman of the

bedchamberFranois Poussard, marquis de Fors and baron du Vigean, by his wife Anne de Neubourg,

daughter of Roland,sieurde Sercelles), he was compelled by his father to marry hisfiance, a child of

thirteen.[1]Although she bore her husband three children, Enghien later claimed she committed adultery with

different men in order to justify locking her away atChteauroux, but the charge was widely disbelieved:Saint-

Simon, while admitting that she was homely and dull, praised her virtue, piety and gentleness in the face of

relentless abuse.[2]

Enghien took part with distinction in the siege ofArras. He also won Richelieu's favor when he was present with

the Cardinal during the plot ofCinq Mars, and afterwards fought in theSiege of Perpignan (1642).

[edit]Thirty Years' War

In 1643 Enghien was appointed to command against the Spanish in northern France. He was opposed by

experienced generals, and the veterans of the Spanish army were held to be the toughest soldiers in Europe.

The greatBattle of Rocroi(19 May) put an end to the supremacy of the Spanish army and inaugurated the long

period of French military predominance. Enghien himself conceived and directed the decisive attack, and at the

age of twenty-two won his place amongst the great generals of the 17th century.

After a campaign of uninterrupted success, Enghien returned to Paris in triumph, and tried to forget his

enforced and hateful marriage with a series of affairs (after Richelieu's death in 1642 he would unsuccessfully

seek annulment of his marriage in hopes of marrying Mlle du Vigean, until she joined the order of

theCarmelitesin 1647).[2]In 1644 he was sent with reinforcements intoGermanyto the assistance ofTurenne,

who was hard pressed, and took command of the whole army.

TheBattle of Freiburg(August) was desperately contested, but in the end the French army won a great victory

over theBavariansand Imperialists, commanded byFranz Baron von Mercy. As after Rocroi, numerous

fortresses opened their gates to the duke.

Enghien spent the next winter, as every winter during the war, amid the gaieties of Paris. The summer

campaign of 1645 opened with the defeat of Turenne by Mercy atMergentheim, but this was retrieved in the

brilliant victory ofNrdlingen, in which Mercy was killed, and Enghien himself received several serious wounds.

The capture ofPhilippsburgwas the most important of his other achievements during this campaign. In 1646
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Enghien served underGaston, Duke of OrlansinFlanders, and when, after the capture ofMardyck, Orlans

returned to Paris, Enghien, left in command, capturedDunkirk(11 October).

[edit]The Fronde

Louis, Prince of Cond, byRobert Nanteuil, 1662.Yale University Art Gallery

It was in this year that Enghien's father died, leaving him the fourth of his line and second of his name to bear

the title Prince of Cond. He also now becamepremierprince du sang, addressed by everyone, from the king

down, simply as Monsieur le prince. The enormous power that fell into his hands was naturally looked upon

with serious alarm by theRegentand her minister. Cond's birth and military renown placed him at the head of

the French nobility, but, added to that, the family of which he was now chief was both enormously rich and

master of a large part of France. Cond himself held Burgundy,Berryand the marches ofLorraine, as well as

other less important territory. His brother, thePrince de ContiheldChampagne, and his brother-in-

law,Longueville,Normandy.

The government, therefore, was determined to allow no increase of his already overgrown authority,

andMazarinmade an attempt, which for the moment proved successful, both to find him employment and to

tarnish his fame as a general. He was sent to lead therevolted Catalans. Ill supported, he was unable toachieve anything, and, being forced to raise the siege ofLleida, he returned home in bitter indignation. In 1648,

however, he received the command in the important field of theLow Countries, and atLens(19 August) a

battle took place, which, beginning with a panic in his own regiment, was retrieved by Cond's coolness and

bravery, and ended in a victory that fully restored his prestige.

See also:Fronde
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In September of the same year Cond was recalled to court, for the RegentAnne of Austriarequired his

support. Influenced by the fact of his royal birth and by his scorn for thebourgeoisie, Cond lent himself to the

court party, and finally, after much hesitation, he consented to lead the army which was to reduce Paris.

On his side, although his forces were insufficient, the war was carried on with vigour. After several minor

combats with substantial losses, and a threatening scarcity of food, the Parisians were weary of the war. The

political situation inclined both parties to peace, which was made atRueilon 20 March.

It was not long, however, before Cond became estranged from the court. His pride and ambition earned him

universal distrust and dislike, and the personal resentment of Anne. She assented to the sudden arrest of

Cond, Conti and Longueville on 18 January 1650. But others, including Turenne and his brother theDuke of

Bouillon, made their escape.

Vigorous attempts for the release of the princes began to be made. The women of the family were now its

heroes. The dowager princess demanded from theparlementof Paris fulfilment of the reformed law of arrest,which forbade imprisonment without trial. Cond's sisterAnne Genevieve, duchesse de Longuevilleentered into

negotiations with Spain; and the young Princess of Cond, having gathered an army around her,

enteredBordeauxand gained the support of theparlementof that town. She, alone among the nobles who took

part in the folly of the Fronde, earned respect and sympathy. Faithful to a faithless husband, she came forth

from the retirement to which he had condemned her to f ight for his freedom.

The delivery of the princes was brought about in the end by the coming together of the old Fronde (the party of

theparlementand ofCardinal de Retz) and the new Fronde (the party of the Conds). Anne was at last, in

February 1651, forced to liberate the princes from their prison atLe Havre. Soon afterwards, however, another

shifting of parties left Cond and the new Fronde isolated. With the court and the old Fronde in alliance against

him, Cond found no recourse but that of making common cause with the Spaniards who were at war with

France.

The confused civil war which followed this step (September 1651) was memorable chiefly for thebattle of the

Faubourg St Antoine, in which Cond and Turenne, two of the leading generals of the age, measured their

strength (2 July 1652). The army of the Prince was only saved by being admitted within the gates of Paris.

La Grande Mademoiselle, daughter ofGaston, Duke of Orlans, persuaded the Parisians to act thus, and

turned the cannon of theBastilleon Turenne's army. Thus Cond, who as usual had fought with the mostdesperate bravery, was saved, and Paris underwent a new siege. This ended in the flight of Cond to the

Spanish army (September 1652), and thenceforward, up to the peace, he was in open arms against France,

and held high command in the army of Spain. Nonetheless, even as an exile, he asserted the precedence of

the royal house of France over the princes of Spain and Austria, with whom he was allied for the moment.
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Cond's fully developed genius as a commander found little scope in the cumbrous and antiquated system of

war practised by the Spanish, and though he gained a few successes, and manoeuvred with the highest

possible skill against Turenne, his disastrousdefeat at the Dunesnear Dunkirk (14 June 1658) led Spain to

open negotiations for peace. TheTreaty of the Pyreneesin 1659, which ended theFranco-Spanish War,

pardoned Cond and allowed him to return to France.

[edit]Rehabilitation

Reception of Le Grand Cond atVersaillesbyJean-Lon Grme(1878).

Cond now realized that the period of agitation and party warfare was at an end, and he accepted, and loyally

maintained henceforward, the position of a chief subordinate toLouis XIV. Even so, some years passed before

he was recalled to active employment, and these years he spent on his estate, theChteau de Chantilly. Here

he gathered round him a brilliant company, which included many men of genius such

asMolire,Racine,Boileau,La Fontaine,Nicole,BourdaloueandBossuet.

About this time negotiations between the Poles, Cond and Louis were carried on with a view to theelection, at

first of Cond's son Enghien, and afterwards of Cond himself, to the throne of Poland. These, after a long

series of curious intrigues, were finally closed in 1674 by the veto of Louis XIV and the election ofJohn

Sobieski. The Prince's retirement, which was only broken by the Polish question and by his personal

intercession on behalf ofFouquetin 1664, ended in 1668.

In that year he proposed toLouvois, the minister of war, a plan for seizingFranche-Comt, the execution of

which was entrusted to him and successfully carried out. He was now completely re-established in the favour of

Louis, and with Turenne was the principal French commander in the celebrated campaign of 1672 against the

Dutch. At the forcing of theRhinepassage atTolhuis(June 12), he received a severe wound, after which he

commanded inAlsaceagainst the Imperials.

In 1673 he was again engaged in the Low Countries, and in 1674 he fought his last great battle, theBattle of

Seneffe, against the Prince of Orange (afterwardsWilliam III of England). This battle, fought on August 11, was

one of the hardest of the century, and Cond, who displayed the reckless bravery of his youth, had three

horses killed under him. His last campaign was that of 1675 on the Rhine, where the army had been deprived

of its general by the death of Turenne; and where by his careful and methodical strategy he repelled the

invasion of the Imperial army ofMontecuccoli.

After this campaign, prematurely worn out by the toils and excesses of his life, and tortured bygout, Cond

returned to Chteau de Chantilly, where he spent the eleven years that remained to him in quietretirement. At

the end of his life, Cond specially sought the companionship ofBourdaloue,Pierre NicoleandBossuet, and
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devoted himself to religious exercises. He died on 11 November 1686 at the age of sixty-five. Bourdaloue

attended him at his death-bed, and Bossuet pronounced hiselegy.

The Prince's lifelong resentment of his forced marriage to a social inferior persisted,[3]and found unchivalrous

expression in a bitter letter, his last to the king, in which he begged that his wife never be released from her

exile to the countryside. Nonetheless, Claire-Clmence de Maill had brought the Prince of Cond a dowry of

600,000livres, themanorsof Ansac, Mouy, Cambronne, Plessis-Billebault, Galissonnire and Brz, and, on

one occasion, liberation from the King's dungeon.

In 1685, his only surviving grandson,Louis de Bourbon, marriedLouise Franoise, Mademoiselle de Nantes-

eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV andMadame de Montespan. In mid 1686, Louise Franoise (later better

known as Madame la Duchesse) caught smallpox while atFontainebleau; it was the Prince himself who helped

nurse the little Duchess back to health, to the point of staying up with her to help her eat. The Prince even

forcibly stopped Louis XIV himself from seeing his daughter for his own safety. Despite Louise Franoise

surviving and giving her husband ten children, the Prince himself became ill; most said it was from worry about

her health. He himself died at thePalace of Fontainebleau. He was buried in the glise atVallery, the

traditional burial place of the Princes of Cond; Claire-Clmence, who outlived her husband, was buried at the

glise Saint-Martin at the Chteau de Chteauroux, France in 1694.

His son and grandson left little in history except they were afflicted by the madness which they had inherited

from Claire-Clmence.

[edit]Ancestry

Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Cond

Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Cond

Eleonore de Roye

Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Cond

Louis III de La Trmoille

Charlotte Catherine de La Trmoille

Jeanne de Montmorency

Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de

Cond
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8 September 1621 26 December 1646His Serene Highnessthe Duke of Enghien

26 December 1646 11 November 1686His Serene Highnessthe Prince of Cond

[edit]Legacy

It is on his military character that the Grand Conds fame rests. Unlike his great rival, Turenne, Cond wasequally brilliant in his first battle and in his last. The one failure of his generalship was in the Spanish Fronde,

and, in this, everything united to thwart his genius; only on the battlefield itself was his personal leadership as

conspicuous as ever.

That he was capable of waging a methodical war of positions may be assumed from his campaigns against

Turenne and Montecucculi, the greatest generals opposing him. But it was in his eagerness for battle, his quick

decision in action, and the stern will which sent his regiments to face the heaviest losses, that Cond is exalted

above all the generals of his time. Upon the Grand Conds death, Louis XIV pronounced that he had lost "the

greatest man in my kingdom."

In 1643 his success at theBattle of Rocroi, in which he led the French army to an unexpected and decisive

victory over the Spanish, established him as a great general and popular hero in France. Together with

theMarshal de Turennehe led the French to victory in theThirty Years' War.

During theFronde, he was courted by both sides, initially supporting Mazarin; he later became a leader of the

princely opposition. After the defeat of the Fronde he entered Spanish service and led their armies against

France. He returned to France only after theTreaty of the Pyreneesin 1659, but soon received military

commands again.

Cond conquered theFranche-Comtduring theWar of Devolutionand led the French armies in theFranco-

Dutch Wartogether with Turenne. His last campaign was in 1675, taking command after Turenne had been

killed, repelling an invasion of an imperial army.

He is regarded as one of the premier generals in world history, whose masterpiece, theBattle of Rocroi, is still

studied by students of military strategy.

His descendants include the present-daypretendersto the throne ofFranceandItalyand the kings

ofSpainandBelgium.

He was portrayed in the film Vatel by Julian Glover.

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Louis, Grand Cond

House of Bourbon-Cond

Cadet branch of theHouse of Bourbon

Born: 8 September 1621Died: 11 November 1686

French nobility

Preceded byHenri de Bourbon

Prince of Cond26 December 164611 November 1686

Succeeded byHenri Jules de Bourbon

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Cond, Louis II de Bourbon, 4th prince deknown as the Great Cond

(born Sept. 8, 1621, Paris, Francedied Dec. 11, 1686, Fontainebleau) French military leader. Hedistinguished himself in battles with Spain in the Thirty Years' War, and in 1649 he helped suppress

theFrondeuprising. After being arrested by Mazarin in 1650, he rebelled and led the second Fronde,fighting from Spain until he was defeated at the Battle of the Dunes in 1658. Pardoned the next year, heagain became one of Louis XIV's greatest generals, winning numerous battles in Spain, Germany, andFlanders. He was a man of great courage, unconventional habits, and sound independence of mind;broadly cultivated, he countedMolireandJean Racineamong his friends. See alsoCond family.

The Great Cond, a life of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Cond (1915)

Author:Godley, Eveline CharlotteSubject:Cond, Louis, prince de, 1621-1686Publisher:London, MurrayPossible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHTLanguage:EnglishCall number: AEP-4159Digitizing sponsor:MSNBook contributor:Robarts - University of TorontoCollection:robarts;toronto

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