Les Aventures des  Bourbon-Condé &  Bourbon-Conti

The Adventures of the  Bourbon-Condés & Bourbon-Contis

Louis-Armand I(1661-1685)  Prince de Conti.  His parents: Armand and Anne-Marie Martinozzi. His brother: François-Louis. He married a legitimated daughter of Louis XIV, Marie-Anne de Blois.
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François-Louis (1664-1709)  Prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, Prince de Conti, le Grand Conti.    His parents: Armand and Anne-Marie Martinozzi   His  brother: Louis-Armand. He married Marie-Thérèse de Condé who bore him seven children amongst whom: Marie-Anne et Louis Armand II.
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Louis III (1668-1710)  Monsieur le Duc.  His parents: Henri-Jules and Anne de Pfalz-Simmern.   His sisters: Anne-Louise, duchesse du Maine and Marie-Anne, duchesse de Vendôme, Marie-Thérèse, princesse de Conti.   He married Louise-Francoise, Mlle de Nantes, a bastard girl of Louis XIV of which he will have 9 children, of which: Louis-Henri I, Charles, Louis and Louise-Elisabeth.
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Anne-Louise-Bénédicte (1676-1753)  Duchesse du Maine.  Her parents: Henri-Jules and Anne de Pfalz-Simmern. Her brother: Louis III. Her sisters: Anne-Marie-Victoire, Marie-Anne and  Marie-Thérèse.   She marries Louis-Auguste duc du Maine.
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Bastard legitimated of Henri-Jules.and Francoise-Charlotte de Montalais (nurse of the children of the Condés)

" Julie L of Bourbon ". She married Armand de Madaillan de Lesparre, marquis de Lassay for this one’s fate.(1652-1738) 
Lassay passionately loved a woman who did not like him, and had married him only in order to escape her condition of an unwed woman, that she judged impractical to take lovers. The naughty girl had inherited the impetuous temperament of the Condé, their pride also, and intended to carry out her life according to her imagination. She was so upset by Lassay because he tried to force a lady of her quality, they then lived in separate homes, and Lassay suffered because she installed her lover, the abbot of Chaulieu in his own bed. But nevertheless when his poor wife died in 1710, Lassay cried a lot because he had never ceased to beg for her return.
 

Louis-HenriI(1692-1740)  Duc de Bourbon.    His parents: Louis III and mademoiselle de Nantes. His sister: Louise-Elisabeth. His brothers: Charles comte de Charolais et Louis comte de Clermont. He was first married to Mademoiselle de Conti but it was his second marriage with Caroline de Hesse that produced an heir: Louis-Joseph
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In 1746, she will introduce the future marquise de Pompadour to the Court. The introduction to the court is a rather complex ceremonial which made it possible to the happy elected to appear in the presence of the King This introduction into the world was to pass through a godfather or a godmother who was to be an obligatorily prince or princesse of blood. These carried a certain responsibility on the future behaviour of their pupil.
 

Louis-Armand II (1695-1727)
comte de la Marche

His parents: François-Louis and Marie-Thérèse de Condé . 
His sister: Marie-Anne. 
His marriage with Louise-Elisabeth de Condé bore him two children: Louis-François and Louise-Henriette.

He was cranky. In 1713, he served in Germany at the siedge of Landaut, he is then promoted fieldmarchal. Governor of Poitou. He enters the Regency consel and the war consel. He gets rich thanks to the Law system. He serves in the army of Spain under the command of the marshal de Villars but does not have qualities of his father.
 

Marie-Anne (1697-1741) 
Mlle de Clermont
 
Her parents: Louis III and Mlle de Nantes.
Her sister: Louise-Elisabeth.
Her brothers: Louis-Henri and Louis, comte de Clermont 

Head of the queen Marie’s Counsel, Marie-Anne maintained a secret relation with Louis, duc de Melun, duc de Joyeuse with whom she was passionately in love. She even sealed a marriage with him but this one’s untimely death was to make her cry a lot.  The duc died durring a hunt in 1724 in Chantilly. The dieing deer stabbed him in the belly and the poor duc could not be saved. The princesse never recovered from her pain and never granted to remarry. Her famous portrait that you can also find in the gallery was painted by Nattier in the pavillion of mineral waters, she was then 32 years old.
 

Charles (1700-1760)  Comte de Charolais  His parents: Louis III and Mlle de Nantes.   His sister: Louise-Elisabeth.   His brothers: Louis-Henri and Louis comte de Clermont.   His son: Louis-Thomas  Of its mistress Marguerite Charon de Rancurel he had two natural children: Marie Marguerite de  Bourbon-Charolais (1752-~1830) and Charlotte Marguerite Elisabeth de Bourbon-Charolais (1754-1839)  French

His father had wanted to give him the title of comte de la Marche but with honesty for his Conti cousins, he chooses to leave this title in this junior branch junior. Although in religion, Louis obtains from the pope Clément XII to be able to carry weapons. He is the only normal member of his generation. Very cultivated he will eventually enter the Academie. General lieutenant in 1735, he takes part in the campaigns in the Netherlands. In charge of the command of the army of Bohemia, he is defeated at Krefeld.(1753). He then proposes to rebuild the army after the defeats undergone while figthing agianst Frederick II of Prussia during of the Seven Year war. It chaired a private technical academy which where erudites and artists could meet. He was also member of the French Academy. He maintained a friendship with the marquise de Pompadour of which he carried a rosette when he went to combat. He was a freemason and became in 1743, Grand Master of the Grande Loge of the kingdom. At his death he will be replaced at this position by Philippe (- Egalité) d’Orleans. He was also Grand Pieur de Malta. Although without alliance, he had two natural children of Mlle Leduc, marquise de Tourvoie: of which the abbé Leduc who was to use the name of abbot of Vendôme.
 

Son of Charles comte de Charolais and a lady of a bastard branch of king Henri II of Valois. His birth posed heavy problems to his father who fought his whole life to make him legitimate It is in fact the marriage of his father that freezes the situation, this one was not recognized by the Prince of Condé. Without heirs, Louis III could not accept that the rights of his house would be weakened by a marriage with an illegitimate branch of Valois. Moreover Thomas de Valois, the father in law had an execrable reputation, a marriage with the girl of this one was thus undesirable. 
Louis-Thomas was raised  within a family working on the estates in Chantilly, he became the administrator of the estate and dealt with the industrial activities of the family. It included the porcelain and lace factories. He received  from his father the titles of comte d'Anisy, Ecouen, Vallery, and Fère. But this irritated the princesse de Conti who estimated that these titles were allocated to the young prince de Condé. 
He referred about it to the King who started to have enough of the problems caused by Charles de Charolais and decided in 1745 to exile Louis-Thomas in England with prohibition to return to France. What he becomes then is not known, but it is of him that the actual Condés descent.

Henriette (1725-1780)  Mlle de Monsel, Mlle de Verneuil  Fille légitimée de Louis-Henri I et de Armande Félicité de la Porte.  Elle épouse en 1740 Jean Roger de Laguiche, comte de Sivignon, colonel-lieutenant du régiment Condé-cavalerie et commandant en chef de la province de Bourgogne.

Louise-Henriette   (1726-1759)   Duchesse d'Orléans   Ses parents: Louis-Armand II et Louise-Elisabeth de Condé   Son frère: Louis-François I   Elle épouse en 1743 Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orléans et aura deux enfants: Louis-Philippe (Philippe-Egalité) et Marie-Louise qui épousera Louis-Henri II duc de Condé.

 
Louis-François II (1734-1814)  
Comte de la Marche.
 
His parents: Louis-François I and  Louise-Diane of Orléans 
He married Fortunée d'Este.

Louis-François-Joseph was simple. According to Guyer " he was poor of spirit ". The covering glance and the thick lip do not show a remarkable intelligence. He was in charge of the government of Berry. In 1758 he is named Lieutenant-General after the battle of Krefeld during the Seven Year. He remained in his estates in Isle d'Adam where he had a relation with a libertine by the name of Jeanne-Louise Desmiers d' Archiac, Mrs. Davasse de St-Amarand. He interceded in her favour so that she obtains an authorization to open a gambling house. He was opposed to his father in the case of the Parliaments and takes the party of Maupeou. He declares in 1788 that the integrity of the constitution must be maintained. He signs the protest of the Princes in 1789. Emigrated in Turin because of the weakness of the king, he refuses to invade the country and returns to France. It lends the civic oath in 1790. Arrested as a monarchist by the National Convention, he is imprisoned in 1793 at Marseilles with his Orleans cousins, and is released in 1794 and lives on his estates in the Landes until the 18 fructidor. In 1797, the Directory banishes him and carries him to the Spanish border. He lives in great poverty in Barcelona where he dies in 1814 without posterity and with him the branch of Conti dies out. He had nevertheless two illegitimate sons: the Chevalier de Vauréal and the musician Gatays.
 

Louis-Joseph (1736-1818)  Gand Maître de la maison du Roi.  His parents: Louis-Henri I and Caroline de Hesse   His marriage with Charlotte-Godefried de Rohan-Soubise, bore him a son: Louis-Henri II . He afterwards married Marie-Catherine de Brignole, princesse de Monaco.
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Louis-Henri II (1756-1830)  Prince de Condé, duc de Bourbon.    His parents: Louis-Joseph and Godefride de Rohan.  His marriage with Marie-Louise (Bathilde) d'Orléans gave him a son: Louis-Antoine duc d'Enghien
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Louise-Adélaïde (1757-1824)  Melle de Condé, soeur Marie-Jospeh de la Miséricorde  Ses parents: Louis-Joseph et Charlotte de Rohan-Soubise  Emigrée en Belgique pendant la Révolution, puis à Turin et en Allemagne, elle entre au noviciat en Suisse et prend le voile à Varsovie. Très pieuse, elle passe d'un couvent à l'autre au gré de l'avance des troupes de Napoléon. Elle fuit alors en Angleterre. Rentrée en France à la Restauration, elle établit un monastère dans la propriété du Temple.		Stéphanie-Louise (1756-1825) ou (1762-1829)  Amélie Gabrielle Stéphanie Louise de Bourbon-Conti  Ses parents: Louis-François I et la duchesse de Mazarin  Elle fût toujours considérée comme une aventurière. Elle se faisait passer pour bâtarde de Louis-François. Toute sa vie elle lutta pour faire reconnaître ses droits mais fût à chaque fois déboutée en justice. Elle obtint néanmoins une pension de Louis XVI. Il serait plus vraisemblable que son père soit Etienne Delorme mais elle ne démordrera jamais qu'elle descendait du prince de Conti et de la duchesse de Mazzarin. Elle a épousé un nommé Billet, procurereur de Lons le Saunier. Elle a publié ses "Mémoires Historiques" en 1798
Louis-François (III) Vauréal (1761-1785)  Chevalier de Vauréal.  Ses parents: Louis-François II et Anne Véronèse (Coraline)(1730-1782).  Son frère: Pierre-Antoine Gatayes  Fils naturel du dernier prince de Conti, il sert dans les armées de celui-ci en tant que maréchal de camp en second du régiment des dragons.  Il avait épousé N. Bontems et entretint jusqu'à sa mort une longue relation avec Anne-Victoire Dervieux, Mme Bélanger.  D'autres sources donnent un chevalier de Vauréal comme étant evêque de Rennes, et élu à l'Académie Française à la mort du cardinal de Rohan en 1750.	François-Claude-Fauste (1771-1833)  marquis de Bourbon-Conti, chevalier de Removille  Fils naturel de Louis-François I et de Marie-Claude Gaucher-Dailly, Madame de Brimont, il a également un frère: Marie-François.	Marie-François-Félix (1772-1840)  comte de Bourbon-Conti, chevalier d'Hattonville  Fils naturel de Louis-François I et de Marie-Claude Gaucher-Dailly, Madame de Brimont, il a également un frère: François-Claude.  Il épouse Angélique de la Brouse de Verteillac (1797-1881). Marie-François était capitaine des chasse du prince de Condé et suivra celui-ci en émigration. Il aura au moins un fils, le comte de Beaumont qui a lui-même une descendance multiple.

Louis-Antoine (1772-1804)  
Duc d'Enghien
 
His parents: Louis-Henri II and Marie-Louise d'Orléans.
Last of his kind, he didn't have any children even if he secretly married Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefort. 

Louis-Antoine-Henri whose execution, widely proclaimed as an atrocity, ended all hope of reconciliation between Napoleon and the royal house of Bourbon.
He was the only son of Louis-Henri II, Duke de Bourbon, he emigrated with his father at the outbreak of the French Revolution and served in his grandfather's émigré army from 1792 until its dissolution after the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801. He secretly married Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefort and settled at Ettenheim, in Baden, just across the French border. 
In 1804 Napoleon, then first consul, received intelligence that connected him with the conspiracy to overthrow him then being planned by Cadoudal and Pichegru. The report was false, but Napoleon ordered Enghien's arrest, and French gendarmes crossed the Rhine secretly and seized him. He was brought to the castle of Vincennes near Paris, where a court-martial was hurriedly gathered to try him, and he was shot about a week after his arrest. Though his father survived him, the Duke d'Enghien was genealogically the last prince of the house of Condé.
The indignation that the execution aroused throughout Europe provoked the often quoted and misquoted comment upon the execution, 'C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute.' ('It's worse than a crime, it's a mistake.')

Anne Marie (1785-1869)
 
 Daughter of  Louis-François II

She lives in St Malo during the French Revolution. There she met a sea captain from Sweden, Martin Bonander (1781-1817). They marry in 1807 and she follows him to Sweden. There she lives with Martin's father in the Island Tjörn. She will bear two daughters, Augustine-Eleonore (1809-?) and Juliana-Christina (1817-1892). Short after the birth of the second one Martin Bonander disappear at sea.
Interesting to note is that both girls have descendants that still live in Sweden today.