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less exhibited a higher estimate of the plan of paign; but he only adopted, and can scarcely b to have in the least improved upon, the strat the German and Swedish leaders of armies i Thirty Years' War. Even as late in his career first years of the war in Holland, in 1672, he fol the vicious practice of besieging towns, inste manoeuvring in the field. But, as I have rem "a change came over the spirit of his dream this period, and a year or two in face of Monte brought this practice to perfection. However, sort of military game of chess which closed his chein although he may be said to have "checked the upon the plain of Schertzen, yet he had not ir degree secured the game, although he seems to thought he had; and there is good reason to be that at that moment his adversary had deepe sources for the game than the Maréchal-Gé possessed. Nevertheless Condé could never have tained the game as did Turenne; and from this a love for strategy has been engendered in the of the French officers, which may even be foun every grade of their service. In fine, we have in hero a truly valuable character of a soldier, and t is no military man in any army of Europe will hesitate to concede to him the title of The G Turenne 1.

1 Histoire du Vicomte Turenne; Les Mémoires du Vico écrits de sa propre Main, Paris 1735; Histoire des dernières C pagnes de Turenne, par Chevalier de Beauvrain, 1772; Les moires du Duc d'Yorck, depuis Jacques II.; Histoires de Fr de Voltaire, Sismondi, Trognon. Biographical Dictiona passim.

LOUIS II. DE BOURBON,

PRINCE DE CONDE.

A FRENCH GENERAL.

Born 1621. Died 1686.

T has been the singular destiny of the house of Condé, Condé's ano come in with the rising, and to expire with the cestry. etting, of the Royal house of Bourbon. With no laim to the Crown, this illustrious family furnished he history of the kingdom of France with some of its nost stirring incidents, in religion and war, for almost a quarter of a century. When the House of Bourbon came to the throne the branch of Condé was the head and front of the French Protestant party; but was forced, after the massacre of St. Bartholomew, to abjure his faith, like his first cousin, Henry IV. The family, nevertheless, had already played a great part in the religious wars of France. The first of the family bore arms on the side of the Calvinists at the battle of Cerisoles, in 1544; the second was killed in

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d'Angely by poison in 1588, and his son, born posthu mous, was the first of the family bred in the Catholic Faith.

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Francis Count d'Enghien, the common ancestor of and parent- the Bourbons, married Mary of Luxemburg, who was heiress of St. Pol, Soissons, Enghien, and Condé in Hainault; so that it has been said that the family became rather Flemish than French. The posthu mous child above spoken of was the father of our hero and married, in 1609, Charlotte Margaret de Montmorency, the handsomest woman of Europe. This young lady was but sixteen, and not disinclined to coquetry. Her husband was altogether unworthy of the beauty, and was an arrant miser. To obtain grants of estates and money was his principal pursuit; and by one means or another he acquired the château and dependencies of Châteauroux, and the fine domains of Chantilly, Ecouen, and St. Maur. there could not have been much compatibility between so ill-assorted a couple, it is not to be wondered at that "the beauty" gave herself up to a little flirting while the sordid mind of her mate was thus preoccupied ; and it was quite in the character of their kinsman, Henry IV., although he had by this time attained the steady age of three-score, to pay court to her charms The young lady lent a favourable ear to the atten tions of the "vieux galant," and it was thought that her young ambition was even flattered by the idea that she could get divorced from her husband, and attain by some means to share her lover's throne. But the husband awoke with an intermittent jealousy, and carried her away from danger;-first to one of his country-houses, and then to another; until, finding that the "diable à quatre" did not relax in his attentions,