Note 39 — SECTION I: CHAPTER IV

That Murat did not dream of the Spanish crown is, I think, fairly well demonstrated by his descendant, Count Murat, in his useful Murat, Lieutenant de l’Empereur en Espagne (1897). But that after once reading the dispatches, Nap. Corresp., 13,588 and 13,589, he failed to see that his brother-in-law’s intention was to seize Spain, is impossible.