Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon
Title(s): Prince de Condé, Duc de Bourbon, Bellegarde, Buise, Marquis de Graville, Comte de Valery, Seigneur de Beaugé, Chantilly, Château-Chinon, Château-Renault, Montluel, Château d'Écouen, etc., also Prince du Sang
Age : 61
Profession: Aristocrat, extensive land owner and extensive wealth
Court position: Grand Maître for Louis XVIII, peer of France
Department: Oise
Political alignment: Ultraroyalists (not politically active)
Bio:
Born in 1756 to the late Prince of Condé, Louis grew up in luxury and was married to Bathilde d’Orléans in 1770 in an attempt to mend the wounds between the two branches of the family. At the time of the marriage the young Prince was only 15, and as such considered too young to consummate the marriage. Therefore his wife returned to a convent until he became older. It was however quickly disproven to as his wife fell pregnant and gave birth only two years later, giving birth to the duke of Enghien.
In 1779 following a masked ball where an altercation occurred between his wife and the Comte d’Artois, the Prince, who was at the time the Duke of Bourbon, challenged Artois to a duel to avenge the insult. The happy marriage dissolved shortly after this in 1781 after his wife slighted him and his family. In the following year he was appointed as the governor of Franche-Comte, serving the king loyally until the outbreak of the revolution. The fallout with his wife lead to a string of mistresses, resolving in the birth of three bastards, one in 1780, the year prior to his final fallout with his wife, followed by his second bastard daughter, Louise Charlotte, and finally his son, Henri Jules in 1787.
During the revolution, the duke of Bourbon raised his own army in the Netherlands before joining that of his father fighting against the revolutionaries. In 1895 he prepared the expedition of the Artois before it was forced to be aborted. Finally together with his father he fled into exile in England, staying there until the restoration in 1814, where upon he returned with his father and their fortunes, titles and lands were restored. During his stay in England he met Sophia Dawes who became his latest mistress, joining him in France at the end of the hundred days. It was during the revolution that his heir, the duke d’Enghien was murdered by Napoleon, causing great grief to the Prince and causing a scandal in the rest of Europe.
The last three years of his life has been fairly quiet, apart from the hundred days where he attempted, although unsuccessfully, to mount to royalist defense of Anjou against Bonaparte. However, the treatment of his father at the hand of his cousin enraged the new Prince, as such he distanced himself even further from the governing of the country and was able during his father’s last hours, to spend them by his bedside.
Positions held:
1756-1817: Duke of Bourbon
1782-1792: Governor of Franche-Comte
1792: General of his own army
1792-1798: High ranking officer in the army of Condé
1795: Organized the expedition of the Comte d’Artois
1817- : Prince of Condé, Duke of Bourbon etc.