A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Montmorency, Charlotte Margaret
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MONTMORENCY, CHARLOTTE MARGARET,
The wife of Condé, was famous for her beauty, which captivated Henry the Fourth of France. To escape the importunities of this powerful lover, her husband carried her off, on their wedding night, 10 Brussels, where she remained till Henry's assassination, in 1610. She died in 1650, aged fifty-seven. Her son was the great Condé.