Octave Meynier

Who was Octave Meynier?

Octave Meynier was a French military officer, born on February 22, 1874 at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in France and died on May 31, 1961 at Algiers. He is remembered as one of two officers who took control of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission, which mutinied and rampaged through West Africa in 1899. He fought in the First World War and later launched a number of cross-Saharan motorised expeditions. He was the son of Marine officer and French Overseas Minister François Meynier, and father to author and geographer André Meynier.