Lucien, 3rd Prince Murat

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Lucien Charles Joseph Napoléon, Prince Français, Prince of Naples, 2nd Prince de Pontecorvo, 3rd Prince Murat was a French politician, and the sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo between 1812 and May 1815.

Lucien with his brother (in uniform), sisters and mother Caroline Bonaparte, c. 1809-10.

Lucien Murat, Prince of Naples, 1811

His second son, Prince Achille Murat (1847–95), with his wife, Princess Salome Dadiani

Joachim Murat

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Joachim Murat was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the military titles of Marshal of the Empire and Admiral of France. He was the first Prince Murat, Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808, and King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon from 1808 to 1815.

Portrait by François Gérard, c. 1808

Murat at the Battle of Abukir, painted by Antoine-Jean Gros (1804)

Murat in hussar uniform as commander of the Consular Guard, by François Gérard (1801)

Murat leading a cavalry charge at the Battle of Jena, 14 October 1806