Louis de Cazenave

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Louis de Cazenave
October 16, 1897 –
Place of birth	Image:Flag of France.svg Saint-Georges-d'Aurac, France
Allegiance	Image:Flag of France.svg France
Service/branch	French Army
Years of service	1916 – 1918
Unit	5th Senegalese Tirailleur Battalion
Battles/wars	Chemin des Dames
Other work	railwayman

Louis de Cazenave (born October 16, 1897) is, at age 110, the oldest France poilu still alive, following the November 10, 2006 passing of almost 112-year-old Maurice Floquet. He is also the oldest living Frenchman, as of August 23, 2007. He is, as of December 11, 2007, the fourth-oldest man in Europe and the eleventh-oldest man in the world as well. De Cazenave is the eighth documented Frenchman to become a supercentenarian.^{[citation needed]}

Born in Saint-Georges-d'Aurac and mobilized at the end of 1916, he found himself on the colonial infantry front in the 5th Senegalese Tirailleur Battalion, and he took part in the battle of Chemin des Dames.

At the end of the war, de Cazenave returned to Haute-Loire and married in 1920 to Marie, a postmistress with whom he had three sons. He became a railwayman, joining the predessecor to the SNCF. His experiences led him to become a convinced pacifist; later on, he participated in the strikes and demonstrations of the Popular Front in 1936 before going into retirement in 1941. During the Nazi occupation of France, he subscribed to the banned libertarian journal La Patrie Humaine and settled in Brioude with his family.