LOUIS JOSEPH DE BOURBON, Prince de Conde (1736-1818), the son of the Duke de Bourbon, was born in Paris, August 9, 1736. He distin guished himself in the Seven Years' War at IMinden, Gemmingen, and Johannisberg. At the outbreak of the Revolution he showed himself a strong supporter of the monarchy, and in 1792 took up arms against the Republic. organizing on the Rhine a body of emigres, which cohperated with the Austrians, and was known as 'the army of Conde.' After the peace of Campo Formio (1797), he entered the Russian service, and in 1801 fought in that of England. In that year he took up his abode in England, where he remained until the Restoration. Ills last years were spent at Chantilly, and he died there :May 13, 1818. He was the anthor (I798) of an Essai sur la vie du grand Conde. His son Louis Henri Joseph (1756-1830) was the last of the Conde princes. He was wounded at the siege of Gibraltar in 1782 and later served under his father against France. His eldest son was
the hapless Due d'Enghien. executed in 1SO4 by order of Napoleon. After the Restoration Conde settled his fortune on the Due d'Aumale, son of Louis Philippe, but in 1830 seemed to have thought of changing this will. Before doing so, however. he was found strangled, and it was judicially decided that he had committed suicide, though no satisfactory evidence was produced and the verdict was an open one.
Consult: Due d'Aumale, Histoire des princes de Conde XVIe and XVIle slides•e 17 vols., Paris, 1363-96) ; vols. i. and ii. translated into English by R. B. Bortlr•ick ( London, 1872 ) ; Lord Mahon, Life of Louis, Prince of Conde (London, 1845) ; Fitzpatrick, The Great Conde and the Period of the Fronde (2d ed., London, 1874) ; Cretincau Joly, Histoire des trois derniers princes de la maison de Conde (Paris, 1866) ; .Nluret, L'his toire de l'armee de Conde (Paris, 1844).