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LOUIS ANTOINE HENRI DE BOURBON ENGHIEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 406 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:ANTOINE See also:HENRI DE See also:BOURBON See also:ENGHIEN  COND$, Duc D' (1772-1804), was the only son of See also:Henri See also:Louis See also:Joseph, See also:prince of See also:Conde, and of See also:Louise See also:Marie Therese Mathilde, See also:sister of the See also:duke of See also:Orleans (Philippe Egalite), and was See also:born at See also:Chantilly on the 2nd of See also:August 1772 . He was educated privately by the See also:abbe Millot, and received a military training from the See also:commodore de Virieux . He See also:early showed the warlike spirit of the See also:house of Conde, and began his military career in 1788 . On the outbreak of the See also:French Revolution he " emigrated " with very many of the nobles a few days after the fall of the See also:Bastille, and remained in See also:exile, seeking to raise forces for the invasion of See also:France and the restoration of the old See also:monarchy . In 1792, on the outbreak of See also:war, he held a command in the force of emigres (styled the " French royal See also:army ") which shared in the duke of See also:Brunswick's unsuccessful invasion of France . He continued to serve under his See also:father and grandfather in what was known as the Conde army, and on several occasions distinguished himself by his bravery and ardour in the vanguard . On the See also:dissolution of that force after the See also:peace of See also:Luneville (See also:February 18o1) he married privately the princess See also:Charlotte, niece of See also:Cardinal de See also:Rohan, and took up his See also:residence at See also:Ettenheim in See also:Baden, near the See also:Rhine . Early in the See also:year 1804 See also:Napoleon, then First See also:Consul of France, heard See also:news which seemed to connect the See also:young duke with the See also:Cadoudal-See also:Pichegru See also:conspiracy then being tracked by the French See also:police . The news ran that the duke was in See also:company with See also:Dumouriez and made See also:secret journeys into France . This was false; the acquaintance was Thumery, a harmless old See also:man, and the duke had no dealings with Cadoudal or Pichegru . Napoleon gave orders for the seizure of the duke . French mounted gendarmes crossed the Rhine secretly, surrounded his house and brought him to See also:Strassburg (15th of See also:March 1804), and thence to the See also:castle of See also:Vincennes, near See also:Paris .

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commission of French colonels was hastily gathered to try him . Meanwhile Napoleon had found out the true facts of the See also:case, and the ground of the See also:accusation was hastily changed . The duke was now charged chiefly with bearing arms against France in the See also:late war, and with intending to take See also:part in the new See also:coalition then proposed against France . The colonels hastily and most informally See also:drew up the See also:act of condemnation, being incited thereto by orders from See also:Savary (q.v.), who had come charged with instructions . Savary intervened to prevent all See also:chance of an interview between the condemned and the First Consul; and the duke was shot in the See also:moat of the castle, near a See also:grave which had already been prepared . With him ended the house of Conde . In 1816 the bones were exhumed and placed in the See also:chapel of the castle . It is now known that See also:Josephine and Mme de See also:Remusat had begged Napoleon for See also:mercy towards the duke; but nothing would See also:bend his will . The blame which the apologists of the See also:emperor have thrown on Talley-See also:rand or Savary is undeserved . On his way to St See also:Helena and at Longwood he asserted that, in the same circumstances, he would do the same again; he inserted a similar See also:declaration in his will . See H . Welschinger, Le Duc d'See also:Enghien 1772-1804 (Paris, 1888) ; A .

Nougaret de Fayet, Recherches historiques sur le prods et la See also:

con-damnation du duc d'Enghien, 2 vols . (Paris, 1844) ; See also:Comte A . Boulay -de la Meurthe, See also:Les Dernieres Annees du duc d'Enghien 18o1-1804 (Paris, 1886) . For documents see La See also:Catastrophe du duc d' Enghien in the edition of Memoires edited by M . F . Barriere, also the edition of the duke's letters, &c., by See also:Count Boulay de la Meurthe (tome i., Paris, 1904; tome ii., 1908) . (J . HL .

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