André Chandernagor, former minister and first president of the Court of Auditors, died on the age of 104 | EUROtoday

With his good-natured demeanor and his communicative good humor, he remembered that as a baby he prayed “the Good Lord to live a hundred years”. He was granted. Former minister, former first president of the Court of Auditors, André Chandernagor died on November 18 in Aubusson (Creuse), on the age of 104. He had the looks of a rustic gentleman and appreciated to recall that considered one of his ancestors was a younger slave taken in in 1757 by Marshal de Bussy, comrade-in-arms of Dupleix, governor basic of the French institutions in India. Baptized and freed, {the teenager} was given the title Charles-François Chandernagor-Bengale, from the title of this previous French buying and selling submit.

Born on September 19, 1921, in Civray (Vienna), from a modest household – his father had a cutlery enterprise – the person familiarly referred to as “Chander” collected prizes for excellence on the native faculty. With an excellent honors in his baccalaureate, he enrolled, in October 1940, on the colonial faculty of Lycée Henri-IV, in Paris. His scholarship allowed him to pay for his lodge room and, on 1^er August 1943, right here he’s, a scholar administrator of the civil providers of Indochina.

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