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CONDÉ.

Louis de BOURBON-CONDÉ, the second of his name, and called the Great, was born at Paris in 1621. He was at the siege of Arras in 1640: in 1643 he completely defeated, at the celebrated battle of Rocroi; that formidable Spanish army, whose veteran bands were so renowned; that the council of war was unwilling to give them battle because their numbers were superior. He soon hastened to the succour of Turenne; after fighing for three days before Fribourg, the victory remaining undecided, and the troops hesitating to advance; he flung his staff into the lines of the enemy, and rushed at the head of his soldiers to regain it.

During the troubles of the civil war, Condé quitted the courtparty, and gave battle in the faubourg Saint-Antoine, where he fought against Turenne who remained faithful to the King. Obliged to quit Paris, he returned not there again until after the peace. The King gave him a new command at last in 1663, when he made the conquest of Franche-Comté. In 1672 he undertook the compaign of Flanders, where he was equally successful; but in 1675, tormented with the agonies of the gout, he retired to Chantilly, and though changing the part he played in life, he was not less pre-eminent than before. Having pursued his studies successfully in youth, he was attached to the belleletters and sciences: the admiration he felt for Corneille prevented him not from appreciating the beauties that fill the tragedies of Racine, whose patron he was, as well as that of Molière and Boileau. Condé died at Fontainebleau in 1686, and his funeral oration was the last that Bossuet pronounced. M. David, the sculptor of this statue, has chosen the moment when Condé flung his staff into the lines of Fribourg.

Height, 12 feet 9 inches.