| Louis Cambrézy | |||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Louis Léon Cambrézy | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1874 8, df=y | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Cayeux-sur-Mer, France | ||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Fianarantsoa, French Madagascar | ||||||||||||
| Nationality: | French | ||||||||||||
| Known For: | L'Écho du Sud | ||||||||||||
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Louis Cambrézy (born 28 August 1874) was a French businessman and settler known for his newspaper L'Écho du Sud.[1]
Louis Léon Cambrézy was born in Cayeux-sur-Mer, in the Somme, northern France on 28 August 1874.[2] After his military service in 1894, he was assigned to the 13th Colonial Infantry Regiment and took part in the Second Madagascar expedition from 1895 to 1897.[3]
Subsequently, he settled permanently in the Colony of Madagascar. He successively became a commercial agent, merchant, mining operator and public works engineer.
In 1929, Cambrézy founded the newspaper L'Écho du Sud in Fianarantsoa, printed for the first time on 13 April 1929.[4] This weekly newspaper took over from La Voix du Sud, another Fianarantsoa newspaper founded by Jules Thibier and which disappeared on last year.[5]
In 1936, he was awarded the Legion of Honour by Louis Rollin, Minister of the Colonies.[6]
During the Second World War, he was stigmatized by the Vichy Regime because he was a Freemason.[7]
He married for the first time on 16 March 1898 in Boulogne-sur-Mer with Octavie Joséphine Capron, then a second time on 23 March 1935 in Fianarantsoa with Renée Lucie Lebourdais.[8]