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he loved to multiply his correfpondences, and the vifits 
they occnfioned. There were few men of any note with 
whom be had not intimacies or dil'putes, and lcarcely any 
journal in which he did not write. Replying to every 
critic, and flattered with every fpecies of praife, he de- 
fpiled no opinion of him, though given by the moil con¬ 
temptible fcribbler. Such is the picture of him, as drawn 
by the marquis de Condorcet. Among his molt ingenious 
and valuable pieces are the following : i. Diftance of the 
Tropics, London, 1744. 2. ExtraCi of Obfervations made 
on a Voyage to the River of the Amazons, 1745. 3. Brief 
'Relation of a Voyage to the Interior of South America, 
Svo. 1745. 4- Journal of the Voyage made by Order of 
the King to the Equator, 2 vols. 4to. 1752. 5. On the 
Inoculation of the Small-pox, umo. 1754- a. A Letter 
on Education, 8vo. 7. Travels through Italy, nmo. 1762. 
S. Meafure of the three fir ft Degrees of she Meridian in 
the Southern Hemilphere, 4to. 1751. The ftyle of the 
different works of la Condamine is fimple and negligent; 
but it is ftrewed with agreeable and lively ftrokes that fe- 
cure to him readers. Poetry was alfo one of the talents 
of this ingenious academician; his produ&ioris of this 
fort were, Vers de Societe, which is full of humour; and 
pieces of a loftier ftyle, as, the Difpute for the Armour 
of Achilles; and others, tranllated from the Latin poets; 
the Epiffle from an old Man, &rc. He died the 4th of 
February, 1774, in consequence of an operation for the 
cure of a hernia, with which he had been long afflicted. 
CONDANO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Golconda: twenty-four miles eaft of Adoni. 
CONDAPIL'LY, a town cf Hindooftan, and capital of 
a circar of the fame name, fituated near the Bay of Ben¬ 
gal: eighty miles eaft-foutb-eaft of Rajamundry, and 108 
lcuih-eaft of Hydrabad. Lat. 16. 37. N. Ion. 80. 30. E. 
Greenwich. 
COND APIL'LY, a circar of Hindooftan, bounded on 
the north-eaft by the circar of Ellore, on the louth-eaft 
by the Bay of Bengal, on the fouth-weft by the river 
Kiftnah, which divides it from Guntoor, and on the north- 
weft by the country of Golconda; about fixty miles long, 
and twenty-five broad. Condapilly is the capital. 
CON'DAT-en-FERRIE'RF.S, a town of France, in 
the department of the Tarn : ten miles north of Murat. 
CONDA'TE, in ancient geography, a town of Armo¬ 
rica, in Gaul: called Civitas Rhedohum, in the Notitia; 
afterwards Redonae ; Redonica Regio, the diftritt. Hence 
the modern name Rennes. Another Condate was.in Bri¬ 
tain, now thought to be Congleton, in Yorkthire ; others 
fay in Lancafhire. 
CONDAVI'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Guntoor, fituated on a mountain: twenty-fix miles weft 
cf Guntoor, and twenty-five fouth-weft of Condapilly. 
CONDE' (Louis de Bourbon prince of), born at Paris, 
September 7, 1621. He was lliled duke d’Enguien, till he 
fucceeded to the title of prince of Conde by his father’s' 
death in 1646. His talent for learning was fo confidera- 
ble, that before the age of thirteen, he defended in pub¬ 
lic feme queffions in philofcphy with incredible applaule. 
He acquired a critical tafte in the arts and fciences, which 
he retained all his life; he never fuffered a day to pafs 
without dedicating two or three hours to reading. His 
chief inclination, however, lay towards the military art; 
and at the age of eighteen he obtained permiftion to make 
.his firft campaign as a volunteer in the army commanded 
by M. de la Meilleraye. This campaign was unfortunate; 
and the duke d’Enguien was only a witnefs of the marfhal’s 
imprudence and diTgrac’e. Neverthelefs, in this campaign 
be laid the foundation of that renown which made him 
afterwards considered as the greateft general of his age. 
Oil his return to Paris, the duke waited upon cardinal 
Richelieu. That mlnifter was fo pleafed with his conver¬ 
sation, that he foon after made propof.ils of an alliance 
with the prince of Conde, by marrying the duke d’Enguien 
to Claire Clemence de Maille Breza, the cardinal’s niece. 
The duke conferred to this match out of obedience to 
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his father; but the conftraint he put upon himfeif by- 
yielding to it was, fo great, that he fell dangeroufiy iii ; 
and it was long before he got the better of his aveiiion. 
to wedlock. To get the better of this, be made two more 
campaigns as a volunteer, the one under the marfhal de la 
Meilleraye, the other in the army of Louis XIII. which 
conquered Rouftillon. In 1643, at the age of twenty-two, * 
he obtained from the king, at the perfuafion of cardinal 
Mazafin, the command of the army deftined to cover 
Champaigne and Picardy ; which command was confirmed 
to him after the king’s death by the queen regent, Anne 
of Aultrin, to whole intereft he was Itrongly devoted. In 
this ftation, though lie never had been prelent at any 
battle, he foon gave fuch a fpecimen of his abilities as 
crowned him with glory. The Spaniards, who threatened 
France with an invafion, were defeated by him at Rocroi-; 
and this fignal viftory made him from that time confidered 
as the guardian genius of his country. He next formed 
the project of belieging Theonville, and propofol it to 
the council of regency. They confented with fear and 
diftruft ; but the duke carried it into execution with fuch 
{kill, adiivity, and courage, that he became juftly the fub-- 
je£t of general admiration. At length, having covered 
Alface and Lorrain from the enterprizes of the Imperial- 
ifts, the duke returned to Paris, where he obtained the 
government of Champaigne, and of the city of Stenai. 
The three following years were little more than a feries 
of military operations. The three battles of Fribourg, in 
which the duke d’Enguien triumphed over velt-marlhal 
count de Mercy, the greateft general in all Germany; the 
taking of Phiiiplbourg, and a great number of other 
places, which rendered him mailer of the Palatinate, and 
of the whole courle of the Rhine; the victory of Nort- 
lingue, by which he revenged the vilcount du i’urenne’s 
defeat at Mariendal ; the fiege and conqueft of Dunkirk ; 
the good and bad fuccefs of his arms in Catalonia, where, 
though, he was forced to raife the fiege of Lerida, he kept 
the Spaniards iivawe, and cut to pieces their rear guard; 
thefe are the principal events which diftinguilh the canir 
paigns of 1644, 1645, and 1646. 
The victories of the duke d’Enguien, his great reputa¬ 
tion and efteem with the people, began now to give um¬ 
brage to Mazarin. The cardinal’s dillike to him appeared 
on the death of the duke de Breeze, admintl of France. 
The prince of Conde earneftly demanded for his fon the 
duke de Breeze’s places. But Mazarin, afraid of in° 
creafing the wealth and power of a prince whom his victo¬ 
ries, and the love and confidence of the people and the 
army, had already rendered too formidable to him, evaded 
his requelt, by perfuading the queen to take the admiralty 
to herlelf. On the death of his father, the minifter’s dii- 
like to the duke d’Enguien, now prince of Conde, became 
Hill more apparent, and did not lubfide until he had, by 
falfe and inlidious pretences, got him confined in the 
caftle of Vincennes. 
In that gallant and warlike age, every thing in France 
was managed by the paflions and intrigues of five or fix. 
women, who poflefled the confidence of the leaders of the 
Hate, and of the various parties. The princels of Mantua, 
wife to one of the fons of the elector Palatine, king of 
Bohemia, principally diredted the counfels in the party of 
the prince. The parliament, on the other hand, loudly- 
demanded the releafe of the priloner. All the orders of 
the ftate united in foliciting it, info.tr.uch that the queen 
was prevailed on to give her conient. Mazarin, therefore;, 
feeing his enlargement inevitable, determined to go him¬ 
feif to reftore the prince to liberty. On his arrival at 
Havre, he entreated Conde’s ffieadihip; and was fo abject 
as to proltrate himfeif at the feet of him whom he had fo 
bafely opprefted. Conde gave him a polite reception; 
but, tired with the mean 1'ubmiftions lavilhed upon him, 
he left the cardinal without making any promife, and let 
out on his return to Paris, which he entered as it were in 
triumph, amidft the acclamations of all orders of men. 
The duke tliCis reftored to the bofom of his country, ami 
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