Duc Louis-Antoine d' Enghien

1772 - 1804  (31 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Louis-Antoine d' Enghien
  Prefix	Duc
  Birth	2 Aug 1772
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Mar 1804	Vincennes, Île-de-France, France
  Person ID	I52811	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Father	Louis VI Henri Joseph de Bourbon,   b. 13 Apr 1756   d. 27 Aug 1830 (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d' Orléans,   b. 9 Jul 1750   d. 10 Jan 1822 (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	1770
  Divorce	1780
  Family ID	F21518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charlotte Louise Dorothee de Rohan-Rochefort,   b. 25 Oct 1786   d. 1 May 1841 (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F21521	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

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  		Death - 21 Mar 1804 - Vincennes, Île-de-France, France  = Link to Google Earth
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  Louis-Antoine-Henri whose execution, widely proclaimed as an atrocity, ended all hope of reconciliation between Napoleon and the royal house of Bourbon. He emigrated with his father at the outbreak of the French Revolution and served in his grandfather's émigré army from 1792 until its dissolution after the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801. He secretly married Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefort and settled at Ettenheim, in Baden, just across the French border. In 1804 Napoleon, then first consul, received intelligence that connected him with the conspiracy to overthrow him then being planned by Cadoudal and Pichegru. The report was false, but Napoleon ordered Enghien's arrest, and French gendarmes crossed the Rhine secretly and seized him. He was brought to the castle of Vincennes near Paris, where a court-martial was hurriedly gathered to try him, and he was shot about a week after his arrest. Though his father survived him, the Duke d' Enghien was genealogically the last prince of the house of Condé. The indignation that the execution aroused throughout Europe provoked the often quoted and misquoted comment upon the execution, 'C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute.' ('It's worse than a crime, it's a mistake.')