Louis Cambrézy


Louis Cambrézy was a French businessman and settler known for his newspaper L'Écho du Sud.

Biography

Louis Léon Cambrézy was born in Cayeux-sur-Mer, in the Somme, northern France on 28 August 1874. 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.
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. This weekly newspaper took over from La Voix du Sud, another Fianarantsoa newspaper founded by Jules Thibier and which disappeared on last year.
In 1936, he was awarded the Legion of Honour by Louis Rollin, Minister of the Colonies.
During the Second World War, he was stigmatized by the Vichy Regime because he was a Freemason.

Personal life

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.

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