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HENRI II., PRINCE DE, who at where with poor troops success failed him. It was necessary soon to recall him to Flanders, where he won the victony of Lens over the Archduke Leopold, in 1648. Having offended the first minister, Cardinal Mazarin, he was imprisoned for more than a year, and after his liberation he led the army of the Fronde, began the siege of Paris, and encountered Turenne and the royalists in the Faubourg St. Antoine. Soon after he entered the service of Spain, and contended with varying success against his countrymen in Flanders. After the Peace of the Pyrenees he returned to Paris, and was employed in the conquest CONDENSATION of Franche-Comté. In the war with Hol- land, in 1672, he was wounded for the only time. His last great exploit was his victory over William, Prince of Orange (William III.), at Senef, in 1674.
A martyr to the gout, he retired in the following year to Chantilly. He died in 1686.
CONDÉ, LOUIS JOSEPH, PRINCE DE, born in Paris in 1736, was brought up by his uncle, the Count of Charolais, served in the Seven Years' War, and distinguished himself at the battles of Hastenbeck, Minden, and Johannisberg. He became the associate of the Dauphin. After the fall of the Bastille he emigrated. The murder of his young grandson, the Duc d'Enghien, by Napoleon, affected him profoundly. At the Restoration, he returned with Louis XVIII. to France, lived again at Chantilly, and was the author of an died in 1818. The great family of Condé became extinct, Aug. 27, 1830, in the person of the DUC DE BOURBON, LOUIS HENRI JOSEPH.