Louis is the younger brother of Antoine de Bourbon and therefore the uncle of the future Henri IV. He is at the origin of the House of Condé, a very powerful line in France until the 19th century. He made a military career under Henri II (defeat of Saint-Quentin in 1557). Under François II, he became the rival of the Guise party which governs. Louis de Condé would have been one of the instigators of the conspiracy of Amboise, he is condemned to death before being pardoned by the new king Charles IX. Protestant, he imposed himself as the leader of the Calvinists during the wars of religion. After the Wassy massacre, he took up arms and took several towns in Languedoc and the Loire. Isolated, he was finally captured at Dreux in 1562. Released, he took up arms again and lost the battle of Jarnac in 1569, wounded, he tried to surrender but was cowardly shot down by Montesquiou. His corpse is humiliated by the Catholics before being exposed for two days on a chair.
Born in 1081, this son of a serf would rise to the pinnacle of power in Church and State . He will be a monk of the abbey of Saint-Denis of which he will become the abbot in 1122. Having become adviser to the kings Louis VI and Louis VII, Suger will carry out an important legislative work. He organi