LEMBEZAT, Bertrand Jean François. Cairo, Egypr 8.3.1913 — 26.3.1986.French Ethnologist and Colonial Official. Son of Jean Lembezat and Marcelle Le Fee de Plaudren. Studies in Paris, diploms of École nationale d’outre-mer, École nationale des langues orientales and Institut d’ethnologie. In the 1930s in Cameroon, during WW II worked there for France libre, after war briefly in Guadeloupe, then in France. Married, one son.
Publications: “Karikal Amméar patronne de la ville de Karikal”, RHR 144, 1953, 78-99; “Les Pêcheurs Patnava de Karikal”, Bulletin de la Section Géographique, Comité des Travaux historiques et scientifiques 1954.
– Much on Cameroon.
Sources: Stray notes in Internet; ancestry.com.au.
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