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Article: Condé Family
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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COND
É
FAMILY
COND
É
FAMILY.
The leading aristocratic house of
ancien r
é
gime
France, the Cond
é
were a cadet branch of the Bourbon dynasty that ruled France from 1589 to the Revolution. The title derived from the principality of Cond
é
-sur-l'Escaut in Flanders which, with the seigneurie of Enghien in the
Î
le-de-France, was the dowry that Fran
ç
ois de Bourbon, count of Vend
ô
me received from his wife, Marie de Luxembourg, in 1487. Then, as later, the Cond
é
family depended on wealthy marriages for its survival. Fran
ç
ois de Bourbon was the founder of the Cond
é
dynasty, whose fortunes came to mirror those of the French monarchy itself.
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