ENGHIEN, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, DUKE. OF, French prince: b. Chan tilly, 2 Aug. 1772; Vincennes, France, 21 March 1804. He was the only son of Louis Henri Joseph Conde, Duke of Bourbon. From 1796 to 1799 he commanded with distinguished merit the vanguard of Conde's army, which was disbanded at the Peace of Luneville (1801). He then married and took up his residence at Etten heim, in Baden. He was generaly looked upon as the leader of the entigris. and was suspected by the Bonapartists of being privy to the attempt of Cadoudal to assassinate the First Consul in 1804. The spies of Napoleon reported that Enghien was often absent for 10 or 12 days together from Ettenheim, and it was believed that on some of these occasions he had secretly visited Paris. Napoleon therefore invaded the neutral duchy of Baden and the Duke of Enghien was seized 15 March 1804, conducted to Strassburg, and thence to the fortress of Vincennes, where he arrived on the evening of the 20th. That same night a court-martial was assembled; his innocence being established, the ground of accusation was changed into that of compassing a new coalition against France, of which he was adjudged guilty. He requested
an interview with Bonaparte, which was refused, and he was immediately led out to execution. He was shot between four and five o'clock in the morning in the ditch outside the walls, and his body was thrown, dressed as tt was, into a grave dug, it is said, the day before. His execu tion was followed by an indicant protest and the rupture of divlomatic relations with Russia; but of the deed Napoleon never repented. He was the last representative of the house of Conde. Consult Dupin, 'Pieces judiciaires' (Paris 1823), and (Memoires historiques sur la catastrophe du Duc d'Enghien) (Paris 1834) ; Fay, Execution of the Duc (in the American Historical Review, New York 1899) ; Welschinger, Duc d'Enghien) (Paris 1888).