Jean Auguste Margueritte
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Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823-September 6, 1870), French General, father of Victor Margueritte and Paul Margueritte.
After an honorable career in Algeria, General Margueritte was mortally wounded in the great cavalry charge at Sedan. He died in Belgium. An account of his life was published by his son, Paul Margueritte as Mon pere (1884; enlarged ed., 1897).
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