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Because < span lang =" fr "> Napoleon </ span >' s hold on political power was still tenuous, French Royalists devised a plot that involved kidnapping and assassinating him and inviting < span lang =" fr "> Louis Antoine Henri </ span >, the Duke of Enghien, to lead a < span lang =" fr "> coup d ' état </ span > that would precede the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy with Louis XVIII on the throne.
The Duke, at that time, was living as a French < span lang =" fr "> émigré </ span > in the Grand Duchy of Baden, but he also kept a rented house in Ettenheim, which was close to the French border.
Perhaps at the urging of < span lang =" fr "> Talleyrand </ span >, Napoleon's foreign minister, and < span lang =" fr "> Fouché, Napoleon </ span >' s minister of police who had warned that " the air is full of daggers ", the First Consul came to the political conclusion that the Duke must be dealt with.
The King ordered < span lang =" fr "> Maréchal Auguste Marmont </ span >, Duke of Ragusa, the on-duty Major-General of the Garde Royale, to repress the disturbances.
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