Louis-Henri-Joseph, 9 prince de Condé

French prince
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Also known as: duc de Bourbon
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Born:
April 13, 1756, Paris
Died:
Aug. 27, 1830, Saint-Leu, Fr. (aged 74)

Louis-Henri-Joseph, 9e prince de Condé (born April 13, 1756, Paris—died Aug. 27, 1830, Saint-Leu, Fr.) was the last of the princes of Condé, whose unfortunate son and sole heir, the Duc d’Enghien, was tried and shot for treason on Napoleon’s orders in 1804, ending the princely line. The 9th Prince of Condé was married in 1770 to Louise-Marie-Thérèse d’Orléans (1750–1822), who bore him a son, Louis-Antoine, duc d’Enghien, in 1772, but from whom he parted in 1780. Emigrating with his father and son in 1789 at the outbreak of the Revolution, he went in 1795 to England to prepare the ...(100 of 193 words)