Joachim Napoléon Murat, 7th Prince Murat (16 January 1920 – 20 July 1944) was a French soldier and Head of the Bonaparte-

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noble family, descended from Joachim Murat, 1st Prince Murat and Caroline Bonaparte, sister of

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

. He was killed fighting for the

French resistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

during

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Biography

Murat was a member of the

during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. He was killed by a patrol of the

Das Reich Division The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich (german: 2. SS-Panzerdivision "Das Reich") or SS Division Das Reich was an elite division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, formed from the regiments of the ''SS-Verfügungstruppe'' (SS-VT ...

on 20 July 1944, aged only twenty-four.
Maxime Weygand said of him: "A young officer distinguished by his zealousness and courage, a true leader of men." Before his death, Murat was married on 18 August 1940, in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

to Nicole Véra Claire Hélène Pastré (1921-1992), the daughter of Countess

Lily Pastré Countess Lily Pastré (a.k.a. Marie-Louise Double de Saint-Lambert) (1891–1974) was a French heiress and patron of the arts. She sheltered many Jewish artists in her Château Pastré in Marseille during World War II. After the war, she helped e ...

, a philanthropist who founded the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1948, and Count

Jean Pastré Count Jean André Hubert Pastré (2 December 1888 – 29 June 1960) was a French polo player. He played polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Early life Jean Pastré was born in 1888. He was the son of Count Ange André Pastré (1856-1926) an ...

, a

polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...

player who played

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.Edmonde Charles-Roux parle de la Comtesse Lily Pastré
, Culture 13 They had three children: * Princess Caroline Marie Louise Murat (b. 1941) : Married in 1962 to Count Yves de Parcevaux,(b. 1936) and divorced. Married in 1967 to Miklós Klobusiczky de Klobusicz et Zétény (b. 1946). * Children: ** Count Amaury de Parcevaux (b. 1963). ** Patricia Klobusiczky (b. 1968). ** Arielle Klobusiczky (b. 1971). * Princess Madeleine Marie Annonciade 'Malcy' Murat (1943-1990). * Joachim Louis Napoleon Murat, 8th Prince Murat (b. 1944), current head of the House of Bonaparte-Murat: Married Laurence Mouton and had issue.

Awards

Medals: *

Croix de Guerre avec Palme The ''Croix de Guerre'' (, ''Cross of War'') is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins. The decoration was first awa ...

(War Cross with Palm). *''

Légion d'Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

'' (posthumous).

Ancestry

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20100613020836/http://chivalricorders.org/royalty/gotha/muratgen.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20080324094546/http://bernard.frantz1.free.fr/KStableau/KS_DESC_BONAPARTE/ksfam.htm
''of the

First French Empire The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire (; Latin: ) after 1809, also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Eu ...

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