Prince Of Cond Louis Joseph

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French nobleman, Prince of Condé from 1740 to his death, and a member of the House of Bourbon, who held the prestigious rank of Prince du Sang. Louis Joseph was the only son of Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon (1692–1740) and Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714–1741). At Versailles on 3 May 1753, he married Charlotte de Rohan (1737–1760), the daughter of King Louis XV's friend, the Charles, prince de Soubise. Together, they had three children: a daughter, Marie, who died young; Louis Henri Joseph, who would become the last prince de Condé; and a daughter, Louise Adélaïde. After the storming of the Bastille in 1789, Louis Joseph fled France with his son and grandson, before the Reign of Terror which arrested, tried and guillotined most of the Bourbons still living in France. During the French Revolution, the prince was a dedicated supporter of the monarchy and one of the principal leaders of the counter-revolutionary movement. He established himself at Coblenz in 1791, where he helped to organize and lead a large counter-revolutionary army of émigrés. This group included Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas and François-René de Chateaubriand. The army was disbanded in 1801 without having achieved its principal ambition, restoring Bourbon rule in France. After the dissolution of the corps, the prince spent his exile in England, where he lived with his second wife, Maria Caterina Brignole, the divorced wife of Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, whom he had married on 24 October 1798 in London. She died in 1813. With the defeat of Napoleon, Louis Joseph returned to Paris, where he resumed his courtly duties as grand maître in the royal household of Louis XVIII. He died on 13 May 1818, aged 81, and was succeeded by his son, Louis Henri. His daughter, Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon, who was a nun and had become the abbess of Remiremont Abbey, survived until 1824. Link to Wikipedia biography