Dukes of Bourbon - Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (Paperback)

Chapters: Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Conde (duc de Bourbon, duc d'Enghien, duc de Guise, duc de Bellegarde, comte de Sancerre; 18 August 1692 27 January 1740) was head of the cadet Bourbon-Conde branch of the French royal House of Bourbon from 1710 to his death, and served as prime minister to his kinsman Louis XV from 1723 to 1726. Despite succeeding to the House of Conde in 1709, he never used the title preferring to be known by the title Duke of Bourbon; he was also known as Monsieur le Duc. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince du Sang. Louis Henri was born at Versailles, the eldest son of Louis de Bourbon and Louise-Francoise de Bourbon, the eldest legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV and his favourite, Madame de Montespan. He was the great-grandson of Louis de Bourbon, le Grand Conde, who died in 1686, and was addressed to as Monsieur le Duc, this style applying specifically the head of the House of Bourbon-Conde. Following the death one after the other of the heirs to the throne of France in the early 1700s, except for the young duc d'Anjou, the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and future Louis XV, Bourbon was next behind the the young dauphin, and Philippe d'Orleans, in hereditary line to the throne of France. He was Louis XV's Prime Minister (Premier Ministre) from 1723 to 1726. The following is a contemporary description of him: He was moderately good looking as a young man, but being over-tall he afterwards began to stoop, and became 'as thin and dry as a chip of wood. Regarding this and other contemporary information, satirical pamphlets directed against royalty were a common form of literature, and the chronicles left ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=70346