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Condé's forces became trapped against the city walls and the Porte St Antoine, which the Parlement refused to open ; he was coming under increasingly heavy fire from the Royalist artillery and the situation looked bleak.
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In a famous incident, La Grande Mademoiselle, the daughter of Gaston, the Duke of Orléans, convinced her father to issue an order for the Parisian forces to act, before she then entered the Bastille and personally ensured that the commander turned the fortress's cannon on Turenne's army, causing significant casualties and enabling Condé's army's safe withdrawal.
At the Battle of Jarnac ( 16 March 1569 ), the prince of Condé was killed, forcing Admiral de Coligny to take command of the Protestant forces, nominally on behalf of Condé's 15 year old son, Henry, and the sixteen-year old Henry of Navarre, who were presented by Jeanne d ' Albret as the legitimate leaders of the Huguenot cause against royal authority.
Later, after Condé's forces had suffered several defeats, Catherine the Great offered positions in her army to the officers serving under Condé.
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Born in Vendôme, he was the fifth son of Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, the younger brother of Antoine de Bourbon who married Jeanne d ' Albret, Queen of Navarre ; their son, Condé's nephew, became Henry IV of France.
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Condé's fully developed genius as a commander found little scope in the cumbrous and antiquated system of war practised by the Spanish, and though he gained a few successes, and manoeuvred with the highest possible skill against Turenne, his disastrous defeat at the Dunes near Dunkirk ( 14 June 1658 ) led Spain to open negotiations for peace.
The writer François-René de Chateaubriand was left for dead during Condé's military émigré expedition against Thionville in 1792.
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Huguenot leaders supported Condé's rebellion, which led the young Louis XIII to conclude that they would never be loyal subjects.
Condé's birth and military renown placed him at the head of the French nobility, but, added to that, the family of which he was now chief was both enormously rich and master of a large part of France.
In 1648, however, he received the command in the important field of the Low Countries, and at Lens ( 19 August ) a battle took place, which, beginning with a panic in his own regiment, was retrieved by Condé's coolness and bravery, and ended in a victory that fully restored his prestige.
The hameau is the best-known of a series of rustic garden constructions built at the time, notably the Prince of Condé's Hameau de Chantilly ( 1774 – 1775 ) which was the inspiration for the Versailles hameau.
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Condé's sister Anne Genevieve, duchesse de Longueville entered into negotiations with Spain ; and the young Princess of Condé, having gathered an army around her, entered Bordeaux and gained the support of the parlement of that town.
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The combined army of 12, 000 men was placed under Condé's overall leadership.
Gossec's own first symphony was performed in 1754, and as conductor to the Prince de Condé's orchestra he produced several operas and other compositions of his own.
Condé's agent was Comte de Montgaillard who used a Swiss printer named Louis Fauche-Borel as the contact with Pichegru.
He favoured Condé's party at the beginning of the Fronde, but changed sides before he was too severely compromised.
Shortly before his death, it was suggested that Henry might marry Condé's niece.
After the conclusion of peace between France and Spain, Henry resided at one of Condé's estates, until the death of Oliver Cromwell and the gradual collapse of the Commonwealth led to calls for the restoration of the monarchy, and he was reunited with Charles.
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Charging downhill from Schloss Alerheim, they broke Condé's hesitant right wing, forcing the Frenchman to call off his attack on the Imperial center.
Maryse Condé's historical novel Segu tells the city's history from 1797 to its 1860 defeat by El Hajj Oumar Tall's Army.
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* November 10 – Battle of Saint-Denis: Anne de Montmorency, with 16, 000 Royalists, falls on Condé's 3, 500 Huguenots.
Nevertheless, Marie agreed to call an Estates General assembly to address Condé's grievances.
Condé's tactics were brutally simple.
About this time negotiations between the Poles, Condé and Louis were carried on with a view to the election, at first of Condé's son Enghien, and afterwards of Condé himself, to the throne of Poland.
Thus, though Condé's genius appeared far more versatile, Turenne's genius best represents the art of war in the 17th century.
Chief among them were the Prince of Condé ( cousin of Louis XVI ), Condé's son, the Duke of Bourbon, and Condé's grandson, the Duke d ' Enghien.
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