Jacques-François Menou

Jacques-François Menou
Portrait of de Menou by Joseph Ducreux
Born(1750-09-03)3 September 1750
Boussay, France
Died13 August 1810(1810-08-13) (aged 59)
Venice, Italy

Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay (3 September 1750 – 13 August 1810) was a French Army officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for his role in the unsuccessful French invasion of Egypt and Syria, where Menou converted to Islam and was renamed Abdallah de Menou.

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