Jean Auguste Margueritte
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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Jean Auguste Margueritte (15 January 1823 - 6 September 1870), French General, father of Victor Margueritte and Paul Margueritte.
After a career in Algeria,[1] General Margueritte was mortally wounded in the great cavalry charge at Sedan, in which the Emperor was defeated and captured. He died in Belgium.[2] An account of his life was published by his son, Paul Margueritte as Mon père (1884; enlarged ed., 1897).
The sand cat is named in his honour, being given the binomial name Felis margarita.[1]
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