Biography of French and colonial administrator Louis Alexandre A. Mizon (1853–99)

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French explorer and colonial administrator Louis Alexandre Antoine Mizon (1853–99) was born in Paris 1853, Antoine Mizon entered the French Navy in 1869. Between 1880 and 1883 he was at Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's orders, with whom he had difficulties working.

In 1890 Antoine Mizon was given the command of an expedition meant to find a viable route between the Niger and the Congo rivers by passing by the Benue and Sangha River. He also led a second mission in 1892 in the same places, meant in particular to establish French control over the Adamawa (in modern Nigeria), from which the Benue, the major tributary of the Niger, rises. The plan failed when the English protested that the claimed territory had been assigned to Britain.

Nomination of Antoine Mizon as the Resident of Majunga, in Madagascar took place in 1895. Mizon was promoted to administrateur-superieur of Mayotte, at the orders of the governor-general of Madagascar, a position he held between 5 August 1897 and 11 March 1899. Nominated governor of Djibouti on 7 March 1899, he died, probably through suicide, on 23 March, before reaching his post as the governor.

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