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Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon

Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (August 18 1692January 27 1740) was head of the cadet Bourbon-Condé wing of the French royal house from 1710 to his death. He was the eldest son of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes (1673-1743), an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France. Louis Henri's only son and successor was born out of his second marriage with Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg.

Bourbon acted as Prime Minister of France for his young cousin, Louis XV, between the death of the Duc d'Orléans in 1723 and his own dismissal in favor of the young king's tutor, Cardinal Fleury, in 1726.


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