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Volume 8 · 139 words · 1860 Edition

Louis-Antoine—Henri de Bourbon Condé, Duc d'Enghien, was born at Chantilly on the 2d of August 1772. He quitted France with the French princes in 1789, and travelled till 1792 in Belgium and Piedmont, where, the emigrants having formed several corps, the Duc d'Enghien served in the army of the Condé and greatly distinguished himself in numerous engagements. At the treaty of Lunéville the corps of Condé was disbanded, and he was forced to lay down his arms. He then retired to Ettenheim, an ancient residence of the Cardinal de Rohan, on the right bank of the Rhine, four leagues from Strasburg, in the electorate of Baden, accompanied by Mademoiselle de Rohan, with whom he had formed a connection in 1794, which was only terminated with his death in 1804. (For an account of his seizure and murder, see FRANCE.)