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Louis, Grand Condé
Louis, Grand Condé, born Louis II de Bourbon and Prince of Condé from 1646, was one of the leading French generals of the seventeenth century. As the young Duke of Enghien he destroyed the Spanish army at Rocroi in 1643, and he won further victories in the Thirty Years' War. He rebelled during the Fronde and fought for Spain in the 1650s, but was pardoned in 1659 and served Louis XIV again.
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