A statuette. A simple statuette… A silver statuette. She has six sisters, similar to them. What is extraordinary is that these seven silver eagle statuettes belonged to Emperor Napoleon I. The fantastic thing is to think of what could happen if they were reunited…
The author of the book, Alexandre Murat, is a direct descendant of Marshal Murat. Joachim Murat, born March 25, 1767 in Labastide-Fortunière (in the Lot department) and shot on October 13, 1815 at the castle of Pizzo (Kingdom of Naples), was a French soldier, high dignitary of the First Empire. Made Marshal of the Empire and French Prince by Napoleon I, he was also Grand Admiral of the Empire, Grand Duke of Berg, then King of Naples from 1808 under the name of Joachim Napoleon I. He was the son of an innkeeper and postmaster…
He certainly had difficult relations with the Emperor, his brother-in-law, at the time of his marriage to Caroline Bonaparte. But at the end of his life, in Saint Helena, Napoleon recognized that Murat would have been of great help to him in Waterloo, declaring “He might have won us the victory; for what did we need at certain times of the day? Push in three or four English squares. Now, Murat was admirable for such work; he was precisely the man of the thing. Never, at the head of a cavalry, did you see someone more determined, braver, so brilliant. »
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“ARANEA, the legend of the emperor” has just been published by Editions Fleuve Noir.