The beautiful intriguers entered into the campaign, and as the expedition to Egypt was then preparing, they induced the minister of war to send Murat with it.

He embarked in the same ship as Bonaparte, namely the "Orient," but the latter did not address a single word to him during the voyage.

After they reached Alexandria, Murat was at first unable to break the icy barrier opposed to him by the general, who, more to put him at a distance from his own person than to give him an opportunity to distinguish himself, confronted him with Mourad Bey.

But, during that campaign, Murat performed such prodigies of valor that he effaced, by such bravery, the memory of that momentary weakness; he charged so intrepidly, so madly at Aboukir, that Bonaparte had not the heart to bear him further malice.
Consequently Murat had returned to France with Bonaparte.

He had powerfully co-operated with him on the 18th and especially on the 19th Brumaire.