s_ in Liege. Between the return of
Napoleon from Elba and the battle of Waterloo, he headed with no success
a royalist rising in La Vendee. In 1829 he made a will by which he
appointed as his heir the due d'Aumale, and made some considerable
bequests to his mistress, the baronne de Feucheres (q.v.). On the 27th
of August 1830 he was found hanged on the fastening of his window. A
crime was generally suspected, and the princes de Rohan, who were
relatives of the deceased, disputed the will. Their petition, however,
was dismissed by the courts.

Two cadet branches of the house of Conde played an important part: those
of Soissons and Conti. The first, sprung from Charles of Bourbon (b.
1566), son of Louis I., prince of Conde, became extinct in the
legitimate male line in 1641. The second took its origin from Armand of
Bourbon, born in 1629, son of Henry II., prince of Conde, and survived
up to 1814.

See Muret, _L'Histoire de l'armee de Conde_; Chamballand, _Vie de
Louis Joseph, prince de Conde_; Cretineau-Joly, _Histoire des trois
derniers princes de la maison de Conde_; and _Histoire des princes de
Conde_, by the due d'Aumale (translated by R. B. Borthwick, 1872).

CONDE, LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE OF (1530-1569), fifth son of Charles de
Bourbon, duke of Vendome, younger brother of Antoine, king of Navarre
(1518-1562), was the first of the famous house of Conde (see above).
After his father's death in 1537 Louis was educated in the principles of
the reformed religion. Brave though deformed, gay but extremely poor for
his rank, Conde was led by his ambition to a military career. He fought
with distinction in Piedmont under Marshal de Brissac; in 1552 he forced
his way with reinforcements into Metz, then besieged by Charles V.; he
led several brilliant sorties from that town; and in 1554 commanded the
light cavalry on the Meuse against Charles. In 1557 he was present at
the battle of St Quentin, and did further good service at the head of
the light horse. But the descendants of the constable de Bourbon were
still looked upon with suspicion in the French court, and Conde's
services were ignored. The court designed to reduce his narrow means
still further by despatching him upon a costly mission to Philip II. of
Spain. His personal griefs thus combined with his religious views to
force upon him a role of political opposition. He was concerned in the
conspiracy of Amboise, which aimed at forcing from the king the