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- ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF ENGHIEN. Collection of 20 pp. in 8° handwritten dated London, April 13, 1804, and relating the condemnation and the execution of the duke of Enghien, grandson of the prince of Condé, and decided by Napoleon Bonaparte. Numerous details make it possible to affirm that the author is a fervent royalist: "The tiger of Malmaison has repented of the blood of which he was impaired" The last 10 pages are devoted to the account of the requiem ceremony celebrated in London a few days later: "Arrived at the moment when the usurper who tyrannizes France made tear off the Prince whom we mourn from a foreign and neutral territory, M. l'abbé cried out: "Nothing is sacred to the hatred of a usurper! ».
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- ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF ENGHIEN. Collection of 20 pp. in 8° handwritten dated London, April 13, 1804, and relating the condemnation and the execution of the duke of Enghien, grandson of the prince of Condé, and decided by Napoleon Bonaparte. Numerous details make it possible to affirm that the author is a fervent royalist: "The tiger of Malmaison has repented of the blood of which he was impaired" The last 10 pages are devoted to the account of the requiem ceremony celebrated in London a few days later: "Arrived at the moment when the usurper who tyrannizes France made tear off the Prince whom we mourn from a foreign and neutral territory, M. l'abbé cried out: "Nothing is sacred to the hatred of a usurper! ».
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