Édouard de Macedo (1900? – 1965 in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

) was one of the founders of Scouting in France 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 exempt ...

, Arthur de Salins,

Paul Coze Paul Coze (born Paul Jean Coze-Dabija, 29 July 1903 in Beirut, Ottoman Empire, died 2 December 1974 Phoenix, Arizona) was a French/Serbian-American anthropologist, artist, and writer, most notable as a French authority on Native Americans, a ...

and Canon Antoine-Louis Cornette.Les créateurs
''europa-scouts.fr'' He served as Federal Commissioner and National Rover Commissioner 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 (f ...

, and later was named President of the Escoteiros Católicos do Brasil by Cardinal Sebastiaõ Leme da Silveira Cintra of

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

, receiving the blessing of Father Leovigildo Franca.

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Scouting and Guiding in Brazil Scouting and Guiding in France 1900s births 1965 deaths {{scout-bio-stub