Canon Antoine-Louis Cornette (8 November 1860 - 19 September 1936) was founder in 1916 of Eclaireurs de Saint Honoré d'Eylau, and served as the first General
Chaplain
A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intellige ...
of the
Scouts de France
Scouts et Guides de France (''Scouts and Guides of France'', SGdF) is the largest Scouting and Guiding association in France. It was formed on 1 September 2004 from the merger of two Roman Catholic Scouting organizations: the Guides de France (fo ...
, best known for being one of the founders of
Scouting in France
The Scout movement in France consisted in 2005 of about 60 different associations and federations with about 180,000 Scouts and Girl Guides. Next to Germany, France is the country with the most fragmented Scout movement.
National recognized orga ...
along with
Jacques Sevin
Jacques Sevin SJ (7 December 1882 - 19 July 1951), was a French Jesuit known for his role in the introduction of Scouting to France.
Biography
Sevin was born in Lille on 7 December 1882. In 1900 he joined the Society of Jesuits and was exemp ...
,
Arthur de Salins,
Paul Coze and
Édouard de Macedo Édouard is both a French given name and a surname, equivalent to Edward in English. Notable people with the name include:
* Édouard Balladur (born 1929), French politician
* Édouard Boubat (1923–1999), French photographer
* Édouard Colonne ...
.
[John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 98]
References
People from Allier
1860 births
1936 deaths
Scouting and Guiding in France
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