Louis Napoléon Murat
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Louis Napoléon Murat (born December 22, 1851 in Paris , † September 22, 1912 there ) was a French rider and Olympic champion.
Louis Napoléon Murat was a great-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte , grandson of Caroline Bonaparte and Joachim Murat and son of Napoléon Lucien Murat . In 1873 he married the Ukrainian noblewoman Eudoxia Michailowna Somowa (1851-1924) in Odessa , with whom he had three children.
Murat started in 1900 at the Olympic Games in Paris in three different equestrian disciplines. In the "Show of Riding Horses", a discipline whose exact criteria are not known and of which it is unclear whether it was official, he won the gold medal with General , in long jumping he took fourth place with Bayard .
A descendant of Louis Napoléon Murat is the American actor René Murat Auberjonois .
Web links
- Louis Napoléon Murat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eudoxie de Somow. Geneanet, accessed April 28, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murat, Louis Napoléon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French rider |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1912 |
| Place of death | Paris |