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Murat

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Mu·rat  (my-rä, mü-), Joachim 1767?-1815.
French marshal who aided Napoleon's coup d'état (1799) and was appointed king of Naples (1808).
Murat (French) [myra]
n
(Biographies / Murat, Joachim (1767-1815) M, Neapolitannational of birth: French, MILITARY: general, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) Joachim (ʒɔaʃɛ̃). 1767-1815, French marshal, during the Napoleonic Wars; king of Naples (1808-15)


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After exchanging a few words with his brother, the First Consul made a sign with his hand, which Murat and Lannes obeyed by retiring.
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"Count Lichtenfels was here this morning," Bilibin continued, "and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement.
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The honorable, the king's attorney, is informed by a friend of the throne and religion, that one Edmond Dantes, mate of the ship Pharaon, arrived this morning from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been intrusted by Murat with a letter for the usurper, and by the usurper with a letter for the Bonapartist committee in Paris.
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