André Lefèvre (1887–1946) was National Commissioner of the Éclaireurs de France from 1922 to 1940. In the 1930s, Lefèvre set up a training camp for 60

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. He was a participant in the

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in Vogelenzang, Netherlands in 1937, where he was in charge of the French Delegation, inclusive of the

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, Éclaireurs Unionistes, and his own Éclaireurs de France, and wore an armband on which the badges of all three associations was embroidered. He was a recipient of the Silver Wolf. Lefèvre died shortly before the

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. It is said

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wanted to meet him when he was in

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. They had met each other when Ho was in Paris in the 1920s at the

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20070930040444/http://www.honneur-au-scoutisme.com/monde/jamsmond/paysbas/jampaysbas.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20070910071046/http://www.aaee-anciennes-eclaireuses.fr/rss.php *http://www.aaee-old-eclaireurs.fr/?/Notre-histoire/5-movement-and-education-populaire/premierstagecemea the first training course of the CEMEA with André Lefèvre and Pierre François 1937 Scouting and Guiding in France People associated with Scouting 20th-century French people 1887 births 1946 deaths {{Scout-bio-stub