COND, LOUIS-JOSEPH, 8E PRINCE DE (8TH PRINCE

born Aug. 9, 1736, Paris died May 13, 1818, Paris one of the princely migrs during the French Revolution. He was the only son of the Duc de Bourbon and Charlotte of Hesse and assumed the Cond title on his father's death (1740). In 1753 he married Godefride de Rohan-Soubise (d. 1760). Brought up for the army, he did good service in the Seven Years' War. On the fall of the Bastille (1789), he was one of the first princes to emigrate. Establishing himself at Worms in 1791, he set about raising the migr army of Cond, which took part, not very effectively, in the antirevolutionary campaigns of 179296. After the Franco-Austrian peace of 1797, Cond went to Russia, served with the Russians in 1799, then passed to Austria in 1800 and to England in 1801. Returning to France in 1814, he died in Paris four years later.