Enghien, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d' (lwē äNtwän` äNrē` də b
rbôN`-kôNdā` dük däNgyăN`), 1772–1804, French émigré; son of Louis Henri Joseph de Condé (see under Condé Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, 1530–69, Protestant leader and general. He fought the Spanish at Metz (1552) and Saint-Quentin (1557) but won little favor at court.
..... Click the link for more information. , family). He was unjustly accused by Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul of France, of participating in the conspiracy of Georges Cadoudal Cadoudal, Georges (zhôrzh käd
..... Click the link for more information. 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.
rbôN`-kôNdā` dük däNgyăN`), 1772–1804, French émigré; son of Louis Henri Joseph de Condé (see under Condé Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, 1530–69, Protestant leader and general. He fought the Spanish at Metz (1552) and Saint-Quentin (1557) but won little favor at court...... Click the link for more information. , family). He was unjustly accused by Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul of France, of participating in the conspiracy of Georges Cadoudal Cadoudal, Georges (zhôrzh käd
..... Click the link for more information. 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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