Conti, an illustrious French family, a younger branch of the house of Bourbon-Condé, all more or less distinguished as soldiers; François Louis especially, who was a man of supreme ability both in war and science, and had the merit to be elected king of Poland (1664‒1709).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Conte, Nicolas Jacques * Continental System