Jean Auguste Margueritte

{{Short description|French General (1823–1870)}}

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| name = Jean Auguste Margueritte

| image = General margueritte.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date text|15 January 1823|15 January 1823}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1870|9|6|1823|1|15}}

| birth_place = Manheulles, France

| death_place = Beauraing, Belgium

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| allegiance = Second French Empire

| serviceyears = 1837–1870

| rank = Général de division

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| commands = 1st Chasseurs d'Afrique Regiment

| battles = French intervention in Mexico
Franco-Prussian War

• Battle of Sedan{{KIA}}

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| relations = {{hlist|Paul Margueritte & Victor Margueritte (sons)|Ève Paul-Margueritte & Lucie Paul-Margueritte (granddaughters)}}

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Jean Auguste Margueritte (15 January 1823 – 6 September 1870), French General, father of Victor Margueritte and Paul Margueritte.

After a career in Algeria,{{Cite journal|last1=Cole|first1=F. Russell|last2=Wilson|first2=Don E.|date=2015-08-31|title=Felis margarita (Carnivora: Felidae)|journal=Mammalian Species|volume=47|issue=924|pages=63–77|doi=10.1093/mspecies/sev007|issn=0076-3519|doi-access=free|pmc=7149465}} General Margueritte was mortally wounded in the great cavalry charge at Sedan, in which the Emperor was defeated and captured. He died in Belgium.{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Margueritte, Paul and Victor|volume=17|page=706}} 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.