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13 unusual facts about Army of Condé


Alexis-François Artaud de Montor

An émigré during the French Revolution, he was entrusted by the royal princes with missions to the Holy See and served during the campaign of Champagne in the Army of Condé.

Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

After a short stay in Austria, however, Richelieu joined the counter-revolutionary émigré army of Louis XVI's cousin, the Prince de Condé, which was headquartered in the German frontier town of Coblenz.

Battle of Valmy

Brunswick's allied invasion force of veteran Prussian and Austrian troops was augmented by large complements of Hessians and the French royalist Army of Condé.

Brunswick Manifesto

The manifesto was written primarily by Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the leader of a large corps of French émigrés in Brunswick's army, and intended to intimidate Paris into submission.

Charles Bretagne Marie de La Trémoille

In 1789, La Trémoille and his parents emigrated from France, and he joined the émigré army under the Prince of Condé.

Charles Gaspard Elisabeth Joseph de Bailly

He joined the émigre party and commanded the Salm hussar regiment in the Army of Condé and served alongside Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil, who promoted him to command the 2nd Division of the force sent to land at Quiberon.

Chasseurs Britanniques

The regiment was formed from the remnants of the Prince of Condé's Army after it was disbanded in 1800.

Claude Antoine Gabriel, duc de Choiseul-Stainville

Liberated in May 1792, he fled France in October, and fought in the émigré army of Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé against the French Republic.

Eugène François d'Arnauld

Opposed to the French Revolution of 1789, he left France in 1791 and served in the Army of Condé to overthrow the French Directory.

François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier

In September 1791, after the dissolution of the Assembly, Montlosier fled to Germany where he tried to join the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé at Coblenz.

Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg

In combination with the Army of Condé and Hessian troops, a portion of his force, 15,000, covered the left (southern) flank of the Prussian advance on Valmy.

Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien

This Army of Condé shared in the Duke of Brunswick's unsuccessful invasion of France.

Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont

A lifelong royalist, he fought with the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé for two years, then joined the insurrection in France from three more years before going into exile.