Lured to Bayonne, Charles IV and his son Ferdinand VII each renounced the Spanish crown in favour of Napoleon, who passed it to his brother Joseph. Murat moved from Madrid to the throne of Naples. This dynastic coup, carried out without a single soldier, would be paid for with six years of war and guerrilla.
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