Termination of Condé’s military career--His retirement at Chantilly--His improvements of the château and estate--His son, the Duc d’Enghien (_Monsieur le Duc_)--Portrait of this prince by Saint-Simon--His tyrannical treatment of his wife--His singular habits--Malicious practical joke which he perpetrates on the Duc de Luxembourg--His amours with the Duchesse de Nevers, the Marquise de Richelieu, and the Comtesse de Marans--His natural daughter by Madame de Marans legitimated and married to the Marquis de Lassay--His lack of military capacity--His children--The education of his only son, the Duc de Bourbon, superintended by Condé--Marriage of the young prince to Mlle. de Nantes, elder daughter of Louis XIV. and Madame de Montespan--The wedding-night--Conversion of Condé--His last illness--His death--His funeral oration by Bossuet--The Princesse de Condé remains in captivity--Her death. _Monsieur le Prince_ probably troubled himself very little about his unhappy wife’s feelings towards him. Having brought his military career to a triumphant close by restoring the fortunes of France in Alsace and driving the Imperialists across the Rhine, he had retired definitely to Chantilly, to spend the remaining years of his life in as much peace as his implacable enemy, gout, would permit. In this delightful spot, his leisure was cheered by the society of all the celebrities of his time. There were to be met warriors, statesmen and ambassadors, divines and philosophers, poets, painters, scientists and wits. No general set out to join his army without coming to take leave of the great captain and discuss with him his plan of campaign; no distinguished foreigner visited Paris without paying homage at Chantilly; no author of repute published a book without sending a copy to the prince who was “thought the best judge in France both of wit and learning.”[218] And so he grew old, honoured and adulated by all: “Tranquille et glorieux Il vit à Chantilly comme on vit dans les cieux.”[219]