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LOUIS HENRY JOSEPH

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 842 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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
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life, especially his
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marriage with the princess Louise of Orleans, and the duel that the conate d'
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Artois provoked by raising the veil of the princess at a masked ball, caused much
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scandal . At the Revolution he fought with the army of the emigres in Liege . Between the return of
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Napoleon from Elba and the
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battle of
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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 duc d'Aumale, and made some considerable bequests to his
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mistress, the baronne de Feucheres (q.v.) . On the 27th of August 183o 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
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part: those of
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Soissons and Conti . The first, sprung from Charles of Bourbon (b: 1566), son of Louis I., prince of Conde, became
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extinct in the legitimate male
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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 1'armee de Conde; Chamballand,
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Vie de Louis Joseph, prince de Conde; Cretineau-Joly, Histoire
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des trois derniers princes de la maison de Conde; and Histoire des princes de Conde, by the duc d'Aumale (translated by R .

B . Borthwick, 1872) .

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