CONDA, Louis II de Bourbon, Parma OF, French general: b. Paris, 8 Sept 1621; d. near Fontainebleau, 11 Dec. 1686. He was the son of Henri II, Prince de Conde (q.v.) and during the life of his father bore the title of Duc d'Enghien. He inunortalized this name at the battle of Rocroi, in whic.h, at the age of 22, he defeated the Spaniards (1643). The same year he was sent to Alsace to help Turenne. Wherever he appeared he was victorious. He besieged DunWrk in sight of the Spanish army, and gained this place for France in 1616. The death of his father in this year made him head of the Conde family with all its vast wealth and extensive estates; so that there were in the kingdom only the lcing himself and the Dulce of Orleans who were more important personages than he. He was given conunand of the army in the Netherlands and appointed captain-general of the Frencili forces. A great victory at Leas in 1648 won him a wonderful reputation. During the troubles of the Fronde he at first took the side of the court against the Parliament and the nobles, and after a siege of a few months brought back the young Louis XIV to Pans (1649) ; but believing himself ill requited by Mazarin for his sernces he put himself at the head of the faction of the Petits Maftres. Be ing captured, however, he was imprisoned by Mazarin (1650), and was not released till after the lapse of a year. He at once put himself at
the head of a new Fronde, and entered upon negotiations with Spain. In spite of several checks he then marched upon Paris, where he was met and opposed in the suburb Saint Antoine (1652). The battle which ensued was indecisive; and Conde, finding himself aban doned by many of his friends, retired to the Netherlands, and joined the Spaniards, who ap pointed him generalissimo of the Spanish armies. In 1658 he was defeated before Dun kirk, by Turenne, and was only restored to royal favor by the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659. In 1668 he was charged with the reduc tion of Franche Comte (then belonging to Spain), which he accomplished in three weeks; and in 1674, at the head of an army sent by Louis XIV against the United Provinces, de feated the Prince of Orange (afterward Wil liam III of England) at Senef. He was un able, however, to take advantage of this victory, as he was obliged to withdraw into Alsace to defend it against Montecuculi, to whom it was thrown open by the death of Turenne in 1675. He succeeded in driving Montecuculi across the Rhine. This was his last triumph. Four years later he retired to Chantilly, near Paris, where he devoted himself to the sciences.