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Enghien, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, Duc d' 1772-1804
French soldier

He was the only son of Louis Henri Joseph, Prince de Condé. He commanded the emigré vanguard from 1796 to 1799. At the Peace of Lunéville (1801) he went to reside in Baden. Napoleon I, claiming that Enghien was involved in a conspiracy against him, violated the neutral territory of Baden, captured the duke and took him to Vincennes. In 1804 he was shot in the castle moat. Boulay de la Meurthe said of this act that it was worse than a crime, it was a blunder - a saying often wrongly attributed to Fouché or to Talleyrand.