The execution of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien on 21 March 1804, by firing squad. Enghien's controversial execution turned much of Europe's aristocracy against Napoleon and served as a catalyst for the War of the Third Coalition (1805-1806). Oil on canvas by Jean-Paul Laurens, 1873.
Musée des Beaux-arts et de la Dentelle d'Alençon.
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