Note 438 — BOOK XI[336]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
After the death of the "People's Friend," Murat, by simply changing one letter, transformed his name into that of Marat. So proud was he of his invention that, in a letter which he wrote on the 18th of November 1793, urging the execution of a "Moderantist," he appended his new signature, "MARAT," no less than four times (MASSON, Napoléon et sa famille, Vol. I. p. 311).—B.