CONDE, the name of some 20 villages in France. The impor tant ones are : Conde-en-Brie (Lat. Condetum) a seat of a princi pality in the middle ages; Conde-sur-Aisne (Condatus) given in 870 by Charles the Bold to the abbey of St. Oven at Rouen, and which also gave its name to a seigniory during the middle ages; Conde-sur-Marne (Condate) has a fine church with Romanesque tower, and was once a place of some importance. Conde-sur l'Escaut in the department of Nord at the junction of the canals of the Scheldt and the Conde-Mons (pop. [1926] 2,712), lies 7 m. north by east of Valenciennes and 2 m. from the Belgian fron tier. Conde (Condate) dates from the late Roman period. It passed into French possession by the Treaty of Nijmwcgen (1678). It was taken by the Austrians (1793) and in 1815 it again fell to the allies. It was from this place that the princes of Conde (q.v.) took their title (see P. L. Perron-Gelineau, Conde ancien et moderne [Nantes, 1886] ). There is also a town in the department of Calvados, 33 m. south-south-west of Caen, called Conde-sur-Noireau (q.v.), important for cotton-spinning and weaving.