Article: Condé Family

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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