Note 99 — Chapter XVIII · THE SUPREMACY OF MAZARIN

[The aged prince of Condé (Henry II de Bourbon) died December 26th, 1646, when the duke d’Enghien (Louis II de Bourbon) assumed his father’s title. He came to be known as “The Great Condé,” and we shall see much of him in the ensuing pages. He was born at Paris, September 8th, 1621; died, December 11th, 1686. The first prince of Condé (Louis I de Bourbon), whose death at the battle of Jarnac in 1569 will be recalled (see p. 363), was his great-grand-father. This first prince of Condé was the younger brother of Anthony, king of Navarre, the father of King Henry IV. So the Great Condé came honestly by his fighting propensities.]