André Lefèvre was National Commissioner of the Éclaireurs de France

Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France

Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France is an interreligious and coeducational Scouting and Guiding association in France. The first interreligious Scouting groups in France were founded in 1911, and interreligious Guiding started in 1914; both movements merged in 1964 forming the EEdF...

 from 1922 to 1940. In the 1930s, Lefèvre set up a training camp for 60 Scoutmasters from all over French Indochina

French Indochina

French Indochina was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia. A federation of the three Vietnamese regions, Tonkin , Annam , and Cochinchina , as well as Cambodia, was formed in 1887....

. He was a participant in the 5th World Scout Jamboree

5th World Scout Jamboree

The 5th World Scout Jamboree was the World Scout Jamboree where 81-year old Baden-Powell gave his farewell.- Organizational details :The Jamboree in Vogelenzang, Bloemendaal in the Netherlands was opened on 1937-07-31 by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, with 28,750 Scouts from 54 countries...

 in Vogelenzang, Netherlands in 1937, where he was in charge of the French Delegation, inclusive of the Scouts de France, Éclaireurs Unionistes

Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs unionistes de France

The Éclaireuses et éclaireurs unionistes de France are a Protestant Scouting and Guiding organization in France...

, 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

Silver Wolf

The Silver Wolf is the highest award made by The Scout Association "for services of the most exceptional character." It is an unrestricted gift of the Chief Scout...

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Lefèvre died shortly before the 1947 World Jamboree. It is said Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

Hồ Chí Minh , born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...

 wanted to meet him when he was in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 for the Sainteny agreements. They had met each other when Ho was in Paris in the 1920s at the Maison pour Tous.

External links

• http://www.honneur-au-scoutisme.com/monde/jamsmond/paysbas/jampaysbas.htm
• 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