prince

thumb|The French prince du sang Louis II de Bourbon with his son. He was a great warrior and a rebel. He triumphed at the [[battle of Rocroi against the Habsburgs and saved the kingdom of his cousin Louis XIV, then four years old. This forged his legendary status and the beginning of the reversal of the balance of power in Europe. The day after Rocroi's victory, he became the new Alexander. The prince's center of gravity was transferred from Paris to Chantilly where he indulged his passions and cultivated a court life, in a sort of anti-Versailles. Under his impetus and the king's first architect, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, his estate, Château de Chantilly, became one of the most prestigious in the kingdom, with a large park by Le Nôtre and sumptuous waterfalls. He protected dissident thinkers, bold poets, rebellious spirits and appreciated the theater – all the great writers of Louis XIV's reign were connected to him: Molière, Corneille, Racine, Boileau and La Fontaine]]

A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. Prince is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The female equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word prince, from the Latin noun , from (first) and (head), meaning "the first, foremost, the chief, most distinguished, noble ruler, prince".