divorce from his
wife, but she now devoted herself to enliven his captivity at the cost
of her own liberty. During the rest of his life Conde was a faithful
servant of the king. He strove to blot out the memory of the Huguenot
connexions of his house by affecting the greatest zeal against
Protestants. His old ambition changed into a desire for the safe
aggrandizement of his family, which he magnificently achieved, and with
that end he bowed before Richelieu, whose niece he forced his son to
marry. His son Louis, the great Conde, is separately noticed below.

The next in succession was Henry Jules, prince of Conde (1643-1709), the
son of the great Conde and of Clemence de Maille, niece of Richelieu. He
fought with distinction under his father in Franche-Comte and the Low
Countries; but he was heartless, avaricious and undoubtedly insane. The
end of his life was marked by singular hypochondriacal fancies. He
believed at one time that he was dead, and refused to eat till some of
his attendants dressed in sheets set him the example. His grandson,
Louis Henry, duke of Bourbon (1692-1740), Louis XV.'s minister, did not
assume the title of prince of Conde which properly belonged to him.

The son of the duke of Bourbon, Louis Joseph, prince of Conde
(1736-1818), after receiving a good education, distinguished himself in
the Seven Years' War, and most of all by his victory at Johannisberg. As
governor of Burgundy he did much to improve the industries and means of
communication of that province. At the Revolution he took up arms in
behalf of the king, became commander of the "army of Conde," and fought
in conjunction with the Austrians till the peace of Campo Formio in
1797, being during the last year in the pay of England. He then served
the emperor of Russia in Poland, and after that (1800) returned into the
pay of England, and fought in Bavaria. In 1800 Conde arrived in England,
where he resided for several years. On the restoration of Louis XVIII.
he returned to France. He died in Paris in 1818. He wrote _Essai sur la
vie du grand Conde_ (1798).

LOUIS HENRY JOSEPH, duke of Bourbon (1756-1830), son of the last named,
was the last prince of Conde. Several of the earlier events of his life,
especially his marriage with the princess Louise of Orleans, and the
duel that the comte d'Artois provoked by raising the veil of the
princess at a masked ball, caused much scandal. At the Revolution he
fought with the army of the _emigre