Tag: Joachim Murat
“Your Majesty dresses too much like a good family man…”
Source: Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, by Constant, Premier Valet de Chambre, Vol. I, translated by Walter Clark. Akron (The Saalfield Pub. Co.), 1907, pg 286.
“How many errors…”
"How many errors did not Murat commit in order to establish his headquarters in some château where he knew there were pretty women! He had to have women about him every day, and for that reason I tolerated the practice of allowing generals to have each a disreputable female attached to him." -Napoleon Bonaparte, to …