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LOUIS ARMAND DE BOURBON
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LOUIS ARMAND DE BOURBON, prince de Conti (1661–1685), eldest son of the preceding, succeeded his father in 1666, and in 168o married Marie Anne, a daughter of Louis XIV. and Louise de la Valliere. He served with distinction in Flanders in 1683, and against the wish of the king went to Hungary, where he assisted the Imperialists to defeat the Turks at Gran in 1683. After a dissolute life he died at Fontainebleau from smallpox.