Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince
de Conde, (1736-1818)
Born 9 August 1736 Paris
Died 13 May 1818 Palais Bourbon
Married (1) 3 May 1753 Versailles
Charlotte de Rohan-Soubise, daughter of Charles de Rohan,
Prince de Soubise, Duc de Rohan-Rohan and Anne Marie Louise
de La Tour d'Auvergne
Born 7 October 1737 Paris
Died 4 March 1760 Paris
Married (2) 24 October 1798
Maria Caterina Brignole, daughter of Nob. Giuseppe
Brignole, Marchese de Brignole-Sale and Maria Anna Balbi
Born 7 October 1737
Died 18 March 1813 Wimbledon
In 1740 his father died and, in consequence, though aged only four,
he became Prince de Cond‚. In 1753 he married Charlotte de Rohan-Soubise
and they became the parents of three children. Brought up for army service,
he served with distinction in the Seven Years' War.
After the fall of the Bastille in 1789, he was one of the first princes
to emigrate. In 1791 while living in Worms, he raised the emigre "Cond‚
Army" which took part without much effect in the
anti-revolutionary campaigns of 1792-1796. After the Franco-Austrian
peace of 1797, Cond‚ went to Russia, serving with the Russians in 1799;
then, in 1800, he went to Austria and, in 1801, to England. In 1814 he
returned to France and four years later died in Paris.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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