Dominique Martin Dupuy

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Dominique Martin Dupuy
Brigadier General
Battles/warsFrench Revolutionary Wars

Dominique Martin Dupuy (1767 – 21 October 1798) was a

French revolutionary brigadier general
.

The son of a

expedition to Egypt, where he wrote, shortly after Pope Pius VI's death : "We are fooling Egyptians with our pretended interest for their religion; neither Bonaparte nor we believe in this religion more than we did in Pius the Defunct's one".[note 1] He was murdered during the Revolt of Cairo (1798). He had never ceased to correspond with the Jacobins
from Toulouse.

Notes and references

  1. ^ Jacques Bainville, Napoleon I, p.94
  1. ^ “Nous trompons les Égyptiens par notre simili attachement à leur religion, à laquelle Bonaparte et nous ne croyons pas plus qu'à celle de Pie le défunt.”[1]