Marshal of the Empire
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Marshal of the Empire was a civil dignity during the First French Empire. It was established by Sénatus-consulte on 18 May 1804 and to a large extent reinstated the formerly abolished title of Marshal
Napoleon near Borodino, an 1897 painting by Vasily Vereshchagin. Several Marshals (recognisable by their white-feathered bicornes) are depicted in the painting.
Official uniform of a Marshal of the Empire. It was designed by painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey and designer Charles Percier.
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Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, Prince de Ponte Corvo, roi de Suède, Maréchal de France
Joachim Murat
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Joachim Murat was a Marshal of the Empire, regarded as the foremost cavalry commander of the Napoleonic Wars, who reigned as King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon from 1808 to 1815. A brother-in-law of N
Marshal of the Empire
…endowments from the Emperor, with two of them – Louis-Alexandre Berthier and André Masséna – receiving more than one million francs each. Two Marshals – Joachim Murat and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte– went on to become kings, with the latter being the direct ancestor of the current Swedish royal family. Most of the…
Portrait 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)
Joachim Murat's signature, brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, at the bottom of a letter of complaint in 1807.