Word: murat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deputy Prince Joachim Murat, a descendant of one Joachim Murat, King of Naples and Napoleon's "playmate," was set upon by "hoodlums" who obviously did not like him. The Prince was kicked, scratched, poked, spat upon and hurled from the platform from which he was speaking at Souillac, Communist stronghold, home of the notorious Louis Malvy...
...that Premier Poincare would win an easy victory and that the new Chamber would be considerably easier to manage than was the old. It seemed certain that the extreme Left would lose heavily, partly on account of Communist capers with M. André Tardieu (TIME, May 5) and Prince Murat (see under). The Moderate Left, under the able leadership of Edouard Herriot, Socialist Mayor of Lyons, was considered likely to strengthen its position. The Extreme Right, led by Royalist Leon Daudet, was expected to lose many seats...