[4] The king had arranged Charlotte's marriage to Condé for his own convenience, in order to sleep with her himself when he pleased.

The king was enraged and threatened to march into Flanders with an army unless the Habsburg governors returned Condé and his wife at once.

[5] Along with many other French nobles, her husband bitterly opposed the rule of Marshal d'Ancre, who abandoned the policy of the late King Henry IV.

In September 1616, Condé and Charlotte-Marguerite were arrested and imprisoned at Vincennes, where their daughter Anne Geneviève was conceived and born three years later, in 1619.

[6] In 1632, Charlotte-Marguerite's only brother, Henri, Duke de Montmorency was executed for intriguing against Cardinal Richelieu.