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CHAPTER VI
FESTIVITIES AT CHANTILLY
Since there was no prospect for Cond£ to take any
prominent lead in the affairs of his own country his
name was proposed as a possible successor to the
throne of Poland. He declined, however, to accept
a crown which had been the cause of so much
misery to King Wladislav IV and to his brother
Jean Casimir. There being no heir-apparent to
that throne the eyes of Marie de Gonzague, Queen
of Poland, turned upon the Due d’Enghien, Conde’s
only surviving son, and it was in connection with
this idea that a marriage was arranged between
Henri Jules de Bourbon and Anne of Bavaria,
eldest daughter of the Princess Palatine, sister to
the Polish Queen. Claire-Clemence was not over-
pleased at the idea of this marriage, since she did
not share her husband’s ambitions. The uneasy
throne of Poland for her only son was a proposal
which she could not face with equanimity.
The union that she would have preferred
was one with Mademoiselle d’Alen^on, youngest
daughter of Gaston d’OrEans, a Princess whom
Henri Jules often saw and greatly admired, for the
Orleans family at that time lived in the sumptuous
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FESTIVITIES AT CHANTILLY
Since there was no prospect for Cond£ to take any
prominent lead in the affairs of his own country his
name was proposed as a possible successor to the
throne of Poland. He declined, however, to accept
a crown which had been the cause of so much
misery to King Wladislav IV and to his brother
Jean Casimir. There being no heir-apparent to
that throne the eyes of Marie de Gonzague, Queen
of Poland, turned upon the Due d’Enghien, Conde’s
only surviving son, and it was in connection with
this idea that a marriage was arranged between
Henri Jules de Bourbon and Anne of Bavaria,
eldest daughter of the Princess Palatine, sister to
the Polish Queen. Claire-Clemence was not over-
pleased at the idea of this marriage, since she did
not share her husband’s ambitions. The uneasy
throne of Poland for her only son was a proposal
which she could not face with equanimity.
The union that she would have preferred
was one with Mademoiselle d’Alen^on, youngest
daughter of Gaston d’OrEans, a Princess whom
Henri Jules often saw and greatly admired, for the
Orleans family at that time lived in the sumptuous
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