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Achille Murat

May 14, 2023

Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat (known as Achille, 21 January 1801 – 15 April 1847) was the eldest son of Joachim Murat, the brother-in-law of Napoleon who was appointed King of Naples during the First French Empire. After his father was deposed and executed by his own subjects, Achille Murat went into exile in Austria with his siblings and mother.

Achille Murat
Prince Murat
Tenure13 October 1815 – 15 April 1847
PredecessorPrince Joachim
SuccessorPrince Lucien
Born(1801-01-21)21 January 1801
Paris, France
Died15 April 1847(1847-04-15) (aged 46)
Jefferson County, Florida, U.S.
SpouseCatherine Willis Gray
FatherJoachim Murat
MotherCaroline Bonaparte

At the age of 21, Achille Murat emigrated to the United States and settled at St. Augustine, Florida, becoming a naturalized citizen sometime after July 1828 and dropping his European titles.

Biography

Early life

 
Achille (in uniform), with his brother, sisters and mother Caroline Bonaparte

Achille Murat was born in the Hôtel de Brienne in Paris, France. His father was Joachim Murat, the son of an affluent farmer and innkeeper,[1] who became one of Napoleon's loyal followers. Joachim Murat was appointed Marshal of the Empire for his military service, and was later awarded royal positions by Napoleon under the First French Empire, including the throne of the Kingdom of Naples.

Achille's mother was Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon. She was styled Grand Duchess of Berg and Queen of Naples, while Achille was considered the crown prince.

Murat's governess was Catherine Davies from Anglesey in Wales. In 1841, she published a memoir describing her eleven years' service with the Murat family.[2]

Exile in Austria and emigration to the United States

After Napoleon was exiled for a second time in 1815, Joachim Murat was deposed and executed by his subjects.[3] Young Achille and his siblings were taken by their mother into exile at the Schloss Frohsdorf,[4] near Vienna in Lower Austria. When Murat turned twenty-one, he obtained permission to emigrate to the United States.[5]

In 1821 he embarked from a Spanish port bound for the United States. On arrival in New York, Murat immediately applied for naturalization.[6] After a few months in that city he made an extensive tour through the United States, using an assumed name at first. He had a striking resemblance to his famous uncle in countenance and mannerisms. Although he had renounced all his European titles[7] and citizenship, his wide social connections brought Murat to Washington, where he befriended Richard K. Call,[8] the delegate of the Florida Territory's at-large congressional district to the United States House of Representatives.

 
Murat's house in St. Augustine, Florida

On the Florida frontier

Call told Murat of opportunities in the new territory of Florida, which had been acquired by the United States from Spain in 1821.[9] In the spring of 1824, the former "Prince of Naples" settled in St. Augustine,[10] reputedly renting what is now called the Prince Murat House on St. George Street.[11] Murat soon became active in St. Augustine society by joining the Masonic lodge and dabbling in local politics.[12] He enrolled in the local militia and was briefly a volunteer under the command of his personal friend, Brig. Gen. Joseph Hernández.

Murat purchased an extensive property of 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) and developed it into a plantation, utilizing slave labor to grow oranges, sugar cane, cotton, and tobacco. He named it 'Parthenope', in honor of his onetime principality in Naples, Italy, which had been founded on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Parthenope (see History of Naples).

Murat's Parthenope was located about 10 mi (16 km) south of St. Augustine, on the west side of the Matanzas River, at the mouth of Moses Creek. Murat liked to go nude and made a submersible chair to escape the heat of the north Florida summers, using it to sit naked in the waters of Moses Creek with mosquito netting over his head.[13] A neighbor observed that he was obsessed with the "...eatibility of the whole animal tribe." Murat was known to have experimented with eating baked turkey buzzard,[14] boiled owl, roasted crow, stewed alligator,[15] lizards and rattlesnakes. He had an aversion to baths, did not like to change his clothes, "washed his feet only after he wore out his shoes," and slept on a mattress stuffed with Spanish moss.[16]

Around 1825, Murat bought the land he would call Lipona Plantation, 15 miles (24 km) east of Tallahassee. He lived there during the remainder of Florida's territorial and early statehood days. The name Lipona is an anagram of "Napoli" (Naples), the kingdom where Murat once thought he would succeed his father. He purchased Lipona at the prodding of the Marquis de Lafayette,[17] beneficiary of the Lafayette Land Grant of July 4, 1825, which had granted him (LaFayette) 36 square miles (93 km2) of land[18] near what would become the city of Tallahassee.

Many authors have repeated claims that Murat was an elected alderman of Tallahassee in 1824, mayor in 1825, and its longest-serving postmaster (1826–1838).[19] The public record and historical evidence do not support these assertions.[20] This and other misinformation about Murat appeared as early as 1888 in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography[21] and was repeated in an 1890s tourists' "guide book" published by the Murat estate (i.e., Bellevue Plantation) that overstated Murat's involvement in local politics; the guide book is mentioned in Bradford Torrey's 1895 book entitled A Florida Sketch-Book, which recalls Torrey's 1893 visit to the Murat estate near Tallahassee.[22] Torrey wrote that Catherine Murat's neighbor and another local "indisputable citizen"—a judge—refuted the Murat claims published in the tourist's guidebook. Because the original city charter for the city of Tallahassee was not in effect until December 9, 1825 and the first municipal election was not held until January 2, 1826, there was no city council in existence in 1824 or 1825; thus Murat could not have been an alderman or mayor in those years.[23] Federal records show Isham G. Searcy as the federally appointed postmaster of Tallahassee for the period claimed in the Murat estate guide-book.[24]

Legend tells that the Marquis' agents arranged for a group of fifty or sixty Norman French farmers to settle on the land around 1831, but there is no documentation of this taking place.[25]

Murat met Catherine Daingerfield Willis Gray in 1826 and married her on July 12 of that year at Tallahassee, Florida. They did not have any children. Gray was the great-grandniece of George Washington.

Murat's political sympathies seem to have been Jacksonian throughout his time in Florida. At a political rally in 1826, he called one of the candidates, his neighbor David Betton Macomb, a "turncoat";[26] Macomb had led a toast to Kentucky statesman Henry Clay on at least one occasion that summer (an alternative version of the story has Macomb upset that Murat's slaves were stealing his hogs). Macomb and Murat met at a local dueling ground near Hiamones Lake. Murat's shot went through Macomb's shirt without touching flesh, and Macomb's took off half of the little finger of Murat's right hand.[26]

During the early phase of the Second Seminole War, and for the previous three years, Murat served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Florida Militia and aide-de-camp to Call. He would retain the rank of lieutenant-colonel the rest of his life.[27]

Friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the winter of 1826, during one of his periodic visits to St. Augustine, Murat met the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.[28][29] The two became close friends and enjoyed discussing topics of the day as well as politics, society, and history. Of Murat, Emerson wrote:

A new event is added to the quiet history of my life. I have connected myself by friendship to a man ... with as ardent a love of truth as that which animates me, with a mind that surpasses mine in the variety of its research, & sharpened & strengthened to an energy for action to which I have no pretension by advantages of birth & practical connection with mankind beyond almost all men in the world.[30]

Like his contemporary, Alexis de Tocqueville, Murat was one of the first notable essayists on culture and mores in the new republic of the United States.[31] During his residence at his plantation near St. Augustine, Murat began to write his observations on American politics[32] and his daily life in Florida in fluent French, Italian and English.[33] He wrote on slavery, economics, and literature as well, but his books never caught on with the public. Murat was a staunch defender of slavery[34] although he professed to fight for human liberty.[35]

To Europe and back

 
Graves of Achille and Catherine Murat, Tallahassee, Florida

Following the July Revolution of 1830 in France, Murat returned to Europe, where he was assigned to the command of a regiment of the Belgian Legion.[36] While in Belgium and France, he hoped to regain some part of the family fortune, based on the properties of his parents. His attempts were futile, and in 1834 the Murats returned to the Tallahassee area.

In 1835, Murat and his wife moved to Louisiana,[37] where he had purchased a sugarcane plantation outside New Orleans and a town house in the city. The couple lived there for several years while he practiced law without much success.[38] After their return to Florida, Murat mortgaged the Lipona property to the Tallahassee Union Bank. He lost it in 1839 when he could no longer meet his financial obligations as a result of the delayed effects of the financial recession of 1837. He and his wife were forced to move to a smaller plantation they named Econchatti, in present-day Jefferson County, Florida.[39] Murat died there in 1847,[40] and was buried in the St. John's Episcopal Church cemetery in Tallahassee.

Murat's maternal first cousin, Napoleon III of France, provided his widow with a cash sum of $40,000 and an annual stipend so that she could live the life to which she had become accustomed. She proved to be a better handler of money than her husband had been,[41] and purchased the Bellevue Plantation in 1854.[40] She held court among her friends and admirers until after the Civil War. Catherine Murat died in 1867 and was also buried at the St. Johns Episcopal Church cemetery. In 1967, the Bellevue plantation house was moved to Tallahassee, where it has been made part of the Tallahassee Museum.[42]

Ancestry

References

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  2. ^ William Roberts, ‘Davies, Catherine (b. 1773, d. in or after 1841)’, rev. J. Gilliland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 Nov 2014
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  7. ^ Edgar Ewing Brandon (1944). A Pilgrimage of Liberty: A Contemporary Account of the Triumphal Tour of General Lafayette Through the Southern and Western States in 1825, as Reported by the Local Newspapers. Lawhead Press. p. 93. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  8. ^ Margaret Uhler (1 January 2003). The Floridians. iUniverse. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-595-26718-7. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
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  13. ^ Hanna 1946, p. 80
  14. ^ Diane Roberts (1 November 2007). Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife. Free Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-4165-8957-0. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
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  16. ^ Gene M. Burnett (1 June 1996). Florida's Past: People and Events That Shaped the State. Pineapple Press Inc. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-56164-115-4. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  17. ^ Harry Gardner Cutler (1923). History of Florida: Past and Present, Historical and Biographical. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 528. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
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achille, murat, charles, louis, napoleon, known, achille, january, 1801, april, 1847, eldest, joachim, murat, brother, napoleon, appointed, king, naples, during, first, french, empire, after, father, deposed, executed, subjects, went, into, exile, austria, wit. Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat known as Achille 21 January 1801 15 April 1847 was the eldest son of Joachim Murat the brother in law of Napoleon who was appointed King of Naples during the First French Empire After his father was deposed and executed by his own subjects Achille Murat went into exile in Austria with his siblings and mother Achille MuratPrince MuratTenure13 October 1815 15 April 1847PredecessorPrince JoachimSuccessorPrince LucienBorn 1801 01 21 21 January 1801Paris FranceDied15 April 1847 1847 04 15 aged 46 Jefferson County Florida U S SpouseCatherine Willis GrayFatherJoachim MuratMotherCaroline BonaparteAt the age of 21 Achille Murat emigrated to the United States and settled at St Augustine Florida becoming a naturalized citizen sometime after July 1828 and dropping his European titles Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life 1 2 Exile in Austria and emigration to the United States 1 3 On the Florida frontier 1 4 Friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 5 To Europe and back 2 Ancestry 3 References 4 External linksBiography EditEarly life Edit Achille in uniform with his brother sisters and mother Caroline Bonaparte Achille Murat was born in the Hotel de Brienne in Paris France His father was Joachim Murat the son of an affluent farmer and innkeeper 1 who became one of Napoleon s loyal followers Joachim Murat was appointed Marshal of the Empire for his military service and was later awarded royal positions by Napoleon under the First French Empire including the throne of the Kingdom of Naples Achille s mother was Caroline Bonaparte sister of Napoleon She was styled Grand Duchess of Berg and Queen of Naples while Achille was considered the crown prince Murat s governess was Catherine Davies from Anglesey in Wales In 1841 she published a memoir describing her eleven years service with the Murat family 2 Exile in Austria and emigration to the United States Edit After Napoleon was exiled for a second time in 1815 Joachim Murat was deposed and executed by his subjects 3 Young Achille and his siblings were taken by their mother into exile at the Schloss Frohsdorf 4 near Vienna in Lower Austria When Murat turned twenty one he obtained permission to emigrate to the United States 5 In 1821 he embarked from a Spanish port bound for the United States On arrival in New York Murat immediately applied for naturalization 6 After a few months in that city he made an extensive tour through the United States using an assumed name at first He had a striking resemblance to his famous uncle in countenance and mannerisms Although he had renounced all his European titles 7 and citizenship his wide social connections brought Murat to Washington where he befriended Richard K Call 8 the delegate of the Florida Territory s at large congressional district to the United States House of Representatives Murat s house in St Augustine Florida On the Florida frontier Edit Call told Murat of opportunities in the new territory of Florida which had been acquired by the United States from Spain in 1821 9 In the spring of 1824 the former Prince of Naples settled in St Augustine 10 reputedly renting what is now called the Prince Murat House on St George Street 11 Murat soon became active in St Augustine society by joining the Masonic lodge and dabbling in local politics 12 He enrolled in the local militia and was briefly a volunteer under the command of his personal friend Brig Gen Joseph Hernandez Murat purchased an extensive property of 2 800 acres 1 100 ha and developed it into a plantation utilizing slave labor to grow oranges sugar cane cotton and tobacco He named it Parthenope in honor of his onetime principality in Naples Italy which had been founded on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Parthenope see History of Naples Murat s Parthenope was located about 10 mi 16 km south of St Augustine on the west side of the Matanzas River at the mouth of Moses Creek Murat liked to go nude and made a submersible chair to escape the heat of the north Florida summers using it to sit naked in the waters of Moses Creek with mosquito netting over his head 13 A neighbor observed that he was obsessed with the eatibility of the whole animal tribe Murat was known to have experimented with eating baked turkey buzzard 14 boiled owl roasted crow stewed alligator 15 lizards and rattlesnakes He had an aversion to baths did not like to change his clothes washed his feet only after he wore out his shoes and slept on a mattress stuffed with Spanish moss 16 Around 1825 Murat bought the land he would call Lipona Plantation 15 miles 24 km east of Tallahassee He lived there during the remainder of Florida s territorial and early statehood days The name Lipona is an anagram of Napoli Naples the kingdom where Murat once thought he would succeed his father He purchased Lipona at the prodding of the Marquis de Lafayette 17 beneficiary of the Lafayette Land Grant of July 4 1825 which had granted him LaFayette 36 square miles 93 km2 of land 18 near what would become the city of Tallahassee Many authors have repeated claims that Murat was an elected alderman of Tallahassee in 1824 mayor in 1825 and its longest serving postmaster 1826 1838 19 The public record and historical evidence do not support these assertions 20 This and other misinformation about Murat appeared as early as 1888 in Appletons Cyclopaedia of American Biography 21 and was repeated in an 1890s tourists guide book published by the Murat estate i e Bellevue Plantation that overstated Murat s involvement in local politics the guide book is mentioned in Bradford Torrey s 1895 book entitled A Florida Sketch Book which recalls Torrey s 1893 visit to the Murat estate near Tallahassee 22 Torrey wrote that Catherine Murat s neighbor and another local indisputable citizen a judge refuted the Murat claims published in the tourist s guidebook Because the original city charter for the city of Tallahassee was not in effect until December 9 1825 and the first municipal election was not held until January 2 1826 there was no city council in existence in 1824 or 1825 thus Murat could not have been an alderman or mayor in those years 23 Federal records show Isham G Searcy as the federally appointed postmaster of Tallahassee for the period claimed in the Murat estate guide book 24 Legend tells that the Marquis agents arranged for a group of fifty or sixty Norman French farmers to settle on the land around 1831 but there is no documentation of this taking place 25 Murat met Catherine Daingerfield Willis Gray in 1826 and married her on July 12 of that year at Tallahassee Florida They did not have any children Gray was the great grandniece of George Washington Murat s political sympathies seem to have been Jacksonian throughout his time in Florida At a political rally in 1826 he called one of the candidates his neighbor David Betton Macomb a turncoat 26 Macomb had led a toast to Kentucky statesman Henry Clay on at least one occasion that summer an alternative version of the story has Macomb upset that Murat s slaves were stealing his hogs Macomb and Murat met at a local dueling ground near Hiamones Lake Murat s shot went through Macomb s shirt without touching flesh and Macomb s took off half of the little finger of Murat s right hand 26 During the early phase of the Second Seminole War and for the previous three years Murat served as a lieutenant colonel in the Florida Militia and aide de camp to Call He would retain the rank of lieutenant colonel the rest of his life 27 Friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson Edit In the winter of 1826 during one of his periodic visits to St Augustine Murat met the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson 28 29 The two became close friends and enjoyed discussing topics of the day as well as politics society and history Of Murat Emerson wrote A new event is added to the quiet history of my life I have connected myself by friendship to a man with as ardent a love of truth as that which animates me with a mind that surpasses mine in the variety of its research amp sharpened amp strengthened to an energy for action to which I have no pretension by advantages of birth amp practical connection with mankind beyond almost all men in the world 30 Like his contemporary Alexis de Tocqueville Murat was one of the first notable essayists on culture and mores in the new republic of the United States 31 During his residence at his plantation near St Augustine Murat began to write his observations on American politics 32 and his daily life in Florida in fluent French Italian and English 33 He wrote on slavery economics and literature as well but his books never caught on with the public Murat was a staunch defender of slavery 34 although he professed to fight for human liberty 35 To Europe and back Edit Graves of Achille and Catherine Murat Tallahassee Florida Following the July Revolution of 1830 in France Murat returned to Europe where he was assigned to the command of a regiment of the Belgian Legion 36 While in Belgium and France he hoped to regain some part of the family fortune based on the properties of his parents His attempts were futile and in 1834 the Murats returned to the Tallahassee area In 1835 Murat and his wife moved to Louisiana 37 where he had purchased a sugarcane plantation outside New Orleans and a town house in the city The couple lived there for several years while he practiced law without much success 38 After their return to Florida Murat mortgaged the Lipona property to the Tallahassee Union Bank He lost it in 1839 when he could no longer meet his financial obligations as a result of the delayed effects of the financial recession of 1837 He and his wife were forced to move to a smaller plantation they named Econchatti in present day Jefferson County Florida 39 Murat died there in 1847 40 and was buried in the St John s Episcopal Church cemetery in Tallahassee Murat s maternal first cousin Napoleon III of France provided his widow with a cash sum of 40 000 and an annual stipend so that she could live the life to which she had become accustomed She proved to be a better handler of money than her husband had been 41 and purchased the Bellevue Plantation in 1854 40 She held court among her friends and admirers until after the Civil War Catherine Murat died in 1867 and was also buried at the St Johns Episcopal Church cemetery In 1967 the Bellevue plantation house was moved to Tallahassee where it has been made part of the Tallahassee Museum 42 Ancestry EditAncestors of Achille Murat16 Pierre Murat8 Guillaume Murat17 Catherine Badoures4 Pierre Murat Jordy18 Bertrand Herbeil9 Marguerite Herbeil19 Anne Roques2 Joachim Murat King of Naples10 Pierre Loubieres5 Jeanne Loubieres11 Jeanne Viellescazes1 Prince Achille Napoleon Murat24 Sebastiano Nicola Buonaparte12 Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte25 Maria Anna Tusoli6 Carlo Maria Buonaparte26 Giuseppe Maria Paravisini13 Maria Saveria Paravisini27 Maria Angela Salineri3 Caroline Bonaparte28 Giovanni Agostino Ramolino14 Giovanni Geronimo Ramolino29 Angela Maria Peri7 Maria Letizia Ramolino30 Giuseppe Maria Pietrasanta15 Angela Maria Pietrasanta31 Maria Josephine MalerbaReferences Edit Ramsay Weston Phipps 1935 The Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon I Vol 1 Oxford University Press H Milford pp 146 147 Retrieved 6 May 2013 William Roberts Davies Catherine b 1773 d in or after 1841 rev J Gilliland Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 accessed 29 Nov 2014 University of California Chronicle University of California Press 1921 p 121 Retrieved 12 May 2013 Louise Pecquet du Bellet Edward Jaquelin Martha Cary Jaquelin 1907 Some prominent Virginia families J P Bell company inc p 291 Retrieved 12 May 2013 Hezekiah Niles William Ogden Niles Jeremiah Hughes George Beatty 1823 Niles National Register Containing Political Historical Geographical Scientifical Statistical Economical and Biographical Documents Essays and Facts Together with 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