Louis, Grand Condé
Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé (8 September 1621 – 11 December 1686), known as le Grand Condé, was a French military commander. A brilliant tactician and strategist, he is regarded as one of France's greatest generals, particularly celebrated for his triumphs in the Thirty Years' War and his campaigns during the Franco-Dutch War.
Quotes
[edit]- Silence! Voilá l’ennemi!
- Hush! Here comes the enemy!
- Uttered as Louis Bourdaloue rose to deliver a sermon at Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Quoted in P. M. Lauras Bourdalou: sa vie et ses oeuvres (1881), vol. 2, p. 72. Translated in Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching (New York, 1912), vol. 2, p. 100
- Variants: voici for voilá
External links
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- Benjamin J. Wertheim, Thrown on the World; or, Saved by Our Hero (Richmond, VA, 1882), p. 15