Jacques-Francois Menou
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Jacques-François de Menou, baron de Boussay was a French general under Napoleon I of France. Born Jacques Menou in Boussay (Indre-et-Loire) on 3 September 1750, he died in Venice on 13 August 1810. In 1798 Le Moniteur documented Napoleon's conversion to Islam, claiming his new Muslim name as ‘Aly Napoleon Bonaparte’.[1] The newspaper referenced Manou's Islamic conversion, who changed his name to Abdullah Jacques-François de Boussay, baron de Menou. He later later married an Egyptian woman, Sitti Zoubeida, possibly a descendant from the line of Muhammad.[2]
Captain Pierre-François Bouchard reported to him the discovery of the Rosetta stone, a vital key in unlocking the lost language of hieroglyphics.[3]
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- Satanic Voices - Ancient & Modern by David Musa Pidcock ISBN 1-871012-03-1
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- ^ The history of new Muslims. Media ISNET. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- ^ Sayyid-Marsot, Afaf Lutfi (1995). Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt. University of Texas Press, pp. 90. ISBN 0-2927-5180-X.
- ^ Max Sewell. The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone. Napoleon-series.org. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
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