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 (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...
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 ...
, best known for being one of the founders of
Scouting in France
The Scout movement in France consists of about 80 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 organizations
T ...
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
Édouard de Macedo.
[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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