House of Murat - Joachim Murat (Paperback)

Chapters: Joachim Murat. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joachim-Napoleon Murat (born Joachim Murat; Italian: 25 March 1767 13 October 1815), Marshal of France and Grand Admiral or Admiral of France, 1st Prince Murat, was Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808 and King of Naples from 1808 to 1815. He received his titles in part by being the brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, through marriage to Napoleon's youngest sister, Caroline Bonaparte. He was noted as a flamboyant dresser and was known as 'the dandy king'. Joachim Murat was born 25 March 1767, in La Bastide-Fortuniere, (renamed Labastide-Murat after its renowned citizen), in the Lot department of France, in the former province of Guyenne, to Pierre Murat-Jordy, (d. 27 July 1799), an innkeeper, and his wife Jeanne Loubieres (La Bastide Fortuniere, b.1722 La Bastide Fortuniere, d. 11 March 1806), daughter of Pierre Loubieres and of his wife Jeanne Viellescazes. His father was the son of Guillaume Murat (1692 1754) and wife Marguerite Herbeil ( 1755), paternal grandson of Pierre Murat, born in 1634, and wife Catherine Badoures, who died in 1697, and maternal grandson of Bertrand Herbeil and wife Anne Roques. Murat enlisted in the cavalry at the age of twenty. In 1791, he joined the king's Constitutional Guard, but left it soon for the regular army. In 1792, he became an officer. He was a staunch supporter of the notorious revolutionary Jacobin Jean-Paul Marat, and thus believed in a philosophy championing a strong centralized government in the form of a republic. In the autumn of 1795, three years after King Louis XVI of France was deposed, royalist and counter-revolutionaries organised an armed uprising. On 3 October, General Napoleon Bonaparte, who was stationed in Paris, was named commander ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=336809