- Jacques-Francois Menou
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Captain Pierre-François Bouchard reported to him the discovery of the
Rosetta stone , a vital key in unlocking the lost language of hieroglyphics. [cite web |url=http://napoleon-series.org/research/miscellaneous/c_rosetta.html |title=The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone |accessdate=2007-03-17 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth = |accessyear= |author=Max Sewell |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Napoleon-series.org |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]On the assassination of
Jean Baptiste Kleber on 14 June 1800, Menou, as senior officer, succeeded to the command of the Army of Egypt. After a dismal tenure, he surrendered Alexandria, the last French position in Egypt, on 30 August 1801.He was appointed to the Tribunate in 1802. Administrator of Piedmont, he was appointed Governor of Tuscany in 1805, and later Governor of Venice.
Recalled to France 23 July 1810, he died at Mestre in the Veneto 13 August 1810.
References
* History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon by Louis Adolphe Thiers, London 1893, v. 2, Book X, passim.
* French Wikipedie.Notes
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