Jacques-Francois Menou

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Jacques-Francois de Menou

Jacques-François de Menou, baron de Boussay born in Boussay (Indre-et-Loire) on 3 September 1750, died in Venice the 13 August 1810 was a French general.

The official French Newspaper of its day, Le Moniteur, carried the accounts of his conversion to Islam in 1798, and mentions his new Muslim name which was ‘Aly Napoleon Bonaparte’. He commends the conversion of General Jacques Menou, who became known as General Abdullah-Jacques Menou, who later married an Egyptian lady, Sitti Zoubeida, who was descended from Muhammad.^{[citation needed]}