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Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien
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synonyms: Due d’Enghien ???
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Definition:[1772-1804]An aristocratic Frenchman from Bourbon and an opponent of Napoleon. When Napoleon suspected him of treason he had him kidnapped from his self-imposed exile in Cologne and taken to Strasbourg where he was summarily tried and executed. The event shocked most of Europe and turned many against Napoleon.
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The prime example of this irrationality is the tyrant’s own conception of himself as God. The mania may clothe itself in varying forms. Tolstóy shows us the confused Pierre, who in 1805 is a Napoleon-worshiper, reflecting that “The execution of the Due d’Enghien was a political necessity and it seems to me that Napoleon showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole responsibility of that deed.”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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In 1804 an event had occurred which produced a great impression on the European courts and inclined them to action against Napoleon. Investigation of the Cadoudal-Pichegru conspiracy against Napoleon disclosed a connection with the Bourbons and, as was wrongly supposed, with their heir, L. A. M. de Bourbon Condé, Due d’Enghien. Napoleon had the Duke seized on Baden territory by French mounted gendarmes, who crossed the Rhine secretly and brought him to the castle of Vincennes near Paris, where he was shot after an irregular trial by a com- mission of French colonels acting under pressure.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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