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French general (1771–1813)

Jean Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes (25 September 1771 – 29 July 1813) was a French military officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for leading the French invasion of Portugal in 1807.

Junot was born into a bourgeois family in Bussy le Grand, Burgundy, on 25 September 1771. He was the fifth son of Michel Junot (1739–1814) and Marie Antoinette Bienaymé (1735–1806). He attended school in Châtillon, then studied law in Dijon before dropping out at the start of the French Revolution. Junot embraced the revolutionary cause, and was present at the Fête de la Fédération in Paris on 14 July 1790.

On 9 July 1791, Junot was one of the founding members of his hometown's National Guard, serving as captain of its 1st company. At the start of the War of the First Coalition, Junot was sent to the Army of the North, receiving the first of many battle wounds at Combat de La Glisuelle on 11 June 1792. which was destined for an invasion of Portugal. The army assembled in Bayonne over the next two months, and was later reinforced with a Spanish contingent under the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau (27 October 1807). In 1813, Junot was made Governor of the Illyrian Provinces. Andrew Roberts writes, "Junot's judgement might have been affected by the syphilis that was to drive him insane. At a ball at Ragusa the following year, he arrived stark naked except for his epaulettes, gloves, dancing shoes, orders and decorations." His growing mental instability, caused by his fall from favor, led to him being returned to his estates, to be placed under the surveillance of his father. Junot defenestrated himself, and died of his injuries days later on 23 July 1813, in Montbard.