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TIL that Achille Murat a nephew of Napoleon Bonapart and for a time heir to the Kingdom of Naples, immigrated to the US where he settled in Florida. There he met and married the great grand-niece of George Washington, Catherine Willis Gray a socialite and preservationist

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