Louis Alexandre Antoine Mizon (1853–99) was a French
explorer and
colonial administrator.
Born in
Paris
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in 1853, Mizon entered in the
French Navy
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in 1869. Between 1880 and 1883 he was at
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's orders, with whom he had difficulties working. In 1890 he was given the command of an expedition meant to find a viable route between the
Niger
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rivers by passing by the
Benue and
Sangha River. He also led a second mission in 1892 in the same places, meant in particular to establish French control over the
Adamawa (in modern
Nigeria
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), from which the Benue, the major tributary of the Niger, rises. The plan failed, for the English protested that the claimed territory had been assigned to Britain.
In 1895 Mizon was nominated
Resident
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of
Majunga, in
Madagascar
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. He was promoted to ''administrateur-superieur'' of
Mayotte
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, at the orders of the governor-general of Madagascar, a position he held between 5 August 1897 and 11 March 1899. Nominated governor of
Djibouti
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on 7 March 1899, he died, probably through suicide, on 23 March, before reaching his post.
See also
*
S'Nabou
Alima S'Nabou (born c. 1880) was an African interpreter (from modern day Nigeria) who accompanied a French explorer named Lieutenant Mizon.
Biography
Alima S'Nabou was born to a chief, Konanki, in the village of Igbobé, near Lokodja located ...
- Mizon's interpreter in the period 1890-1892
References
External links
A short biography
1853 births
1899 deaths
Explorers from Paris
French Navy officers
Explorers of Africa
French colonial governors and administrators
People of French Equatorial Africa
People of French West Africa
19th-century French military personnel
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