An archive of primary source material relating to Joachim Murat, Marshal of France and King of Naples
The final part of my translation of the introductory manuscript on Murat by his lifelong friend & former finance minister, Jean-Michel Agar, the Count of Mosbourg. In this last portion of what was to be the beginning of Mosbourg's planned biography of Murat, Mosbourg explains his desire to dispel the myths surrounding Murat and to …
Continue reading “The sole object of my efforts is to obtain justice”
Part 2 of my translation of the introductory manuscript on Murat by his friend & former finance minister, Jean-Michel Agar, the Count of Mosbourg. In this part, Mosbourg discusses the relationship between Murat and Napoleon, and how it came to be disrupted--and permanently altered--by malicious rumors spread by Murat's enemies. Translated from Murat: Lieutenant de l’Empereur …
Part 1 of my translation of the introductory manuscript on Murat by his friend & former finance minister, Jean-Michel Agar, the Count of Mosbourg. (For background info on Mosbourg's plan to write about Murat, see my previous post.) In his introductory pages, Mosbourg discusses the character of the Murat he personally knew and observed, before …
I've been wanting to translate the relatively short manuscript on Murat left behind by Murat's childhood friend, the Count of Mosbourg, for a while now, so I'm going to start working my way through it and posting it bit by bit; it'll be a nice break in between the ongoing translation of excerpts/correspondence from Louise …
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