Louis VI. Henri Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé

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Louis VI. Heinrich Joseph, Duke of Bourbon

Louis VI. Heinrich Joseph, Duke of Bourbon, 9th "Prince de Condé" (born April 13, 1756 in Paris , † August 27, 1830 in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt near Paris) was a member of the French royal family from the House of Bourbon and the last Duke of Bourbon.

Life

1830, at Pierre-Louis Delaval, Musée Condé de Chantilly

Ludwig was the only son of Ludwig V Joseph, Prince de Condé and his first wife Princess Charlotte de Rohan , "Mademoiselle de Soubise". On April 24, 1770, he married Princess Bathilde , daughter of Duke Ludwig Philip I of Orléans , in Versailles , from whom he separated again in 1780.

He emigrated with his father and son in 1789 when the French Revolution broke out . From 1795 he lived in England, where he and the Count of Artois prepared for his unsuccessful invasion of the Vendée . His son Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien , was kidnapped to France in 1804 and executed after a show trial at the instigation of the consul Napoleon Bonaparte .

Ludwig Heinrich Joseph returned to France after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, accompanied by his lover, the Englishwoman Sophie Dawes. When Napoleon escaped from Elba in the spring of 1815 , Ludwig was appointed military commander-in-chief of the western departments, but had to capitulate at Nantes . After the Restoration in 1815, he first lived on his estate in Chantilly . The prince's mistress, Sophie Dawes, later became the wife of his adjutant Baron Feuchères. Since he had no heir, he no longer officially accepted the title of Prince de Condé when his father died in 1818 .

He was supposedly depressed since the July Revolution of 1830 . He was found hanged in the bedroom of his castle in Saint-Leu. In addition to his current lover, heirs were the opera singer Marguerite Michelot, the House of Orléans and, above all, Duke Heinrich von Aumale , the fourth son of the Citizen King Louis Philip I of France . Since he died without leaving another heir, the Bourbon-Condé family became extinct, the Duke of Aumale held the title of Prince Condé until 1866.

Although the doctors attested suicide, the House of Rohan and parts of the public accused King Louis Philippe of inheritance sneaking and Baroness Feuchères of murder.

progeny

The only child from his marriage to Princess Bathilde of Orléans was:

From the connection with Marguerite Michelot he had the daughters born out of wedlock:

  • Adelaide (* 1780; † 1874)
    ⚭ 1. 1803 Patrice Bernard de Montessus, Comte de Rully († 1831)
    ⚭ 2. 1833 Guy de Chaumont, Comte de Quitry († 1851)
  • Louise (* 1782; † after 1795)

literature

  • Helmut Domke: The death of the Duke of Enghien. A fate in the shadow of Bonaparte. Prestel, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7913-0680-4 .

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SURNAME Bourbon, Louis VI. Henri Joseph de, prince de Condé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourbon, Ludwig Heinrich II. Von, Prince of Condé; Louis VI. Heinrich Joseph, Duke of Bourbon, Prince de Condé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Condé
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1830
Place of death Saint-Leu-la-Forêt