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PRINCE LOUIS DE BOURBON CONDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 842 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRINCE See also:LOUIS DE See also:BOURBON See also:CONDE  of (1530-1569), fifth son of See also:Charles de See also:Bourbon, See also:duke of See also:Vendome, younger See also:brother of See also:Antoine, See also:king of See also:Navarre (1518-1562), was the first of the famous See also:house of See also:Conde (see above) . After his See also:father's See also:death in 1537 See also:Louis was educated in the principles of the reformed See also:religion . Brave though deformed, See also:gay but extremely poor for his See also:rank, Conde was led by his ambition to a military career . He fought with distinction in See also:Piedmont under See also:Marshal de See also:Brissac; in 1552 he forced his way with reinforcements into See also:Metz, then besieged by Charles V.; he led several brilliant sorties from that See also:town; and in 1554 commanded the See also:light See also:cavalry on the See also:Meuse against Charles . In 1557 he was See also:present at the See also:battle of St Quentin, and did further See also:good service at the See also:head of the light See also:horse . But the descendants of the See also:constable de Bourbon were still looked upon with suspicion in the See also:French See also:court, and Conde's services were ignored . The court designed to reduce his narrow means still further by despatching him upon a costly See also:mission to See also:Philip II. of See also:Spain . His See also:personal griefs thus combined with his religious views to force upon him a role of See also:political opposition . He was concerned in the See also:conspiracy of See also:Amboise, which aimed at forcing from the king the recognition of the reformed religion . He was consequently condemned to death, and was only saved by the decease of See also:Francis II . At the See also:accession of the boy-king Charles IX., the policy of the court was changed, and Conde received from See also:Catherine de' See also:Medici the See also:government of See also:Picardy . But the struggle between the Catholics and the See also:Huguenots soon began once more, and henceforward the career of Conde is the See also:story of the See also:wars of religion (see See also:FRANCE: See also:History) .

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chief of the Huguenot party, and displayed the highest generalship on many occasions, and notably at the battle of St See also:Denis . At the battle of See also:Jarnac, with only 400 horsemen, Conde rashly charged the whole See also:Catholic See also:army . Worn out with fighting, he at last gave up his See also:sword, and a Catholic officer named Montesquiou treacherously shot him through the head on the 13th of See also:March 1569 .

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