An archive of primary source material relating to Joachim Murat, Marshal of France and King of Naples
Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples, returned home to her kingdom on the 3rd of August, 1810, after having been in Paris since December of the previous year. She was delighted to finally see her children again after such a long absence, but her reunion with her husband would take slightly longer; Joachim was leading what …
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Continuing my tradition of completely random Murat content, I'm pausing in between the ongoing excerpts from Louise's memoirs to post a letter from Murat to his mother, from 16 May 1801. His first child, Achille, was born five months earlier; Murat, who was sent by Napoleon to take over command of the army in Italy …
A letter from Pauline Bonaparte to Murat, 28 January 1809.
The final portion of Murat's letters to his eldest daughter Letitia, spanning from August 1813 to April 1814.
A continuation of Murat's letters to his eldest daughter Letitia; the letters featured in this part span from August of 1812 through the beginning of the 1813 campaign.
A continuation of Murat's letters to his eldest daughter Letitia; the letters featured in this part span from late 1810 through the early months of the 1812 campaign against Russia.
Letitia Murat, the eldest daughter of Joachim and Caroline, was born in Paris on 26 April 1802. If Joachim could be said to have a favorite child--and he obsessively doted on and spoiled them all--it would have been Letitia. Certainly she was his favorite correspondent. He wrote to her regularly during his absences, delighting in …
Murat departed from Naples at the beginning of May 1812, to take command of the massive cavalry force assembled by Napoleon for the campaign against Russia. Traveling through Posen on his way to join the Emperor in Danzig, he took the time to write an extraordinary letter to his ten-year-old daughter Letitia. The letter--one of …
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Shortly after Napoleon had resolved to marry the Austrian archduchess Marie-Louise in the wake of his divorce from Josephine, he dispatched his youngest sister, Caroline Murat, the Queen of Naples, to meet his bride-to-be in Munich. Caroline's journey began early in March 1810. She was to accompany Marie-Louise to Soissons, where the archduchess was (in …
Continue reading A day in the life of the Murats–24 March 1810
I've neglected this blog for far longer than I meant to. Time to get back in the swing of things, with a translated letter from Murat to his daughter Letitia, written during the Russian campaign, on August 11, 1812. From Quarante lettres de Joachim Murat à sa fille Laetitia. I've rendered it in the same …
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