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 | | Louis II de Bourbon Condé (1621 - 1686), known as Le Grand Condé, transformed the estate by commissioning the landscape architect André Le Nôtre, the future designer of the Parc de Versailles, to design the grounds. |
 | | Louis Henri, Prince de Bourbon Condé (1692 - 1740), the prime minister of Louis XV from 1723 to 1726, commissioned Jean Aubert to build the Grands Ecuries, a masterpiece of the 18th century, and to decorate the apartments of Le Petit Château. |
 | | In 1884, the Duc d'Aumale, a member of the Institut de France since 1871, bequeathed Chantilly to the Institut under the condition that, on his death, the Condé Museum would be opened to the public and that the presentation of the collections would not be changed or loaned out. |
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