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An 1816 ten-centime coin from Réunion, from when it was still called Isle Bourbon. The island has been inhabited since the 17th century, when people from France and Madagascar settled there. Slavery was abolished on 20 December 1848 (a date celebrated yearly on the island), when the Second Republic abolished slavery in the French colonies.
In 1765, named the heir of his paternal aunt, Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, Louis Joseph received generous pensions which Élisabeth Alexandrine had in turn acquired from her cousin, Louise-Françoise de Bourbon. In that same year, Louis Joseph repurchased the Palais Bourbon, previously owned by his family, from King Louis XV, and decided ...
Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, often simply called Vendôme (1 July 1654 – 11 June 1712) was a French general and Marshal of France. One of the great generals of his era, he was one of Louis XIV 's most successful commanders in the War of the Grand Alliance and War of the Spanish Succession .
The Princes of Condé descend from the Vendôme family – the progenitors of the modern House of Bourbon.There was never a principality, sovereign or vassal, of Condé.. The name merely served as the territorial source of a title adopted by Louis, who inherited from his father, Charles IV de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1489–1537), the lordship of Condé-en-Brie in Champagne, consisting of the ...
The French government turned over the administration of Mauritius to the French East India Company, but the island remained free of Europeans until 1721. Furthermore, until 1735, Isle de France was administered from Île Bourbon, now known as Réunion. [4] By 1726, the company had made land grants to colonists, soldiers and workers.
Louis was the son of César de Bourbon, Légitimé de France, Duke of Vendôme and Françoise de Lorraine (1592–1669), daughter of Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (d. 1602). [1] Louis had a military career and was Governor of Provence from 1653 to 1669.
Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (1736–1818), member of the House of Bourbon; Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise (1650–1671), Prince of Lorraine; Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654–1712), French general and Marshal of France; Louis Joseph Bahin (1813–1857), American painter in the Antebellum South; Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712–1759 ...
Louis François Joseph de Bourbon or Louis François II, Prince of Conti (French pronunciation: [lwi fʁɑ̃swa ʒozɛf də buʁbɔ̃]; 1 September 1734 – 13 March 1814), was the last Prince of Conti, scion of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, whose senior branches ruled France until 1848.