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Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé

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Louis Henri de Bourbon-Condé (Louis VI, Prince de Condé, Duc de Bourbon) (April 13 1756 ? August 30 1830) was Prince of Condé from 1818 to his death. He was the only son of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé and his wife, Charlotte-Godefried de Rohan-Soubise. Prior to his accession to the Condé title, he was known as the Duc de Bourbon. In 1770 he married Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans, daughter of Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans and in 1772 their only son, Louis Antoine, Duc d'Enghien, was born. The marriage was not a happy one and in 1780 the couple separated and Louis never remarried. Shortly afterwards, the Duc de Bourbon began a public affair with an opera singer, Marguerite Michelot, which resulted in two illegitimate daughters. During the French Revolution, he accompanied his father into exile in England and survived the purge of the House of Bourbon in France, which cost the life of King Louis XVI and his consort Marie-Antoinette, amongst others. In 1804, his son, the Duc d'Enghien, was executed in the moat of the Chateau de Vincennes on trumped up charges after being kidnapped under orders of Napoleon. He had been married to Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefort for less than two months and had no issue. The Duc de Bourbon returned with his father to France after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, and both recovered their fortunes and public status. On his father's death in 1818, he assumed the title of Prince de Condé.

The line of Bourbon-Condé came to an end with Louis Henri's death under suspicious circumstances in 1830, shortly after the July Revolution. His lands and wealth passed to his godson, the Duc d'Aumale, the fourth son of King Louis-Philippe of France (Louis Philippe was the feudal-law heir to Conti and Condé, being the grandson of Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti, a daughter of Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon-Condé, who was sister of Louis Henri's grandfather).

Preceded by
Louis Joseph of Bourbon
Prince of Condé Succeeded by
None. Title extinguished

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