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Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé duc d'Enghien

 
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Enghien, Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon, ducd' (1772-1804). A member of the house of Condé, he emigrated under the Revolution, but was kidnapped in March 1804, brought back to France, and executed on the trumped-up charge of plotting to overthrow Napoleon (who saw in him a possible rival for power). His killing provoked great indignation, expressed notably in Chateaubriand's Mémoires d' outre-tombe.

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Enghien, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d' (lwē äNtwän' äNrē' də bʊrbôN'-kôNdā' dük däNgyăN'), 1772-1804, French émigré; son of Louis Henri Joseph de Condé (see under Condé, family). He was unjustly accused by Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul of France, of participating in the conspiracy of Georges Cadoudal against Napoleon. On Napoleon's orders, the duke was kidnapped from his residence in Ettenheim, Baden, and within the space of a few hours, was court-martialed and shot at Vincennes (Mar. 21, 1804). Napoleon's brutal procedure provoked a revulsion of feeling against him throughout Europe.
 
 

 

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