Louis N. Le Roux

Le Roux was born at Pleudaniel, Brittany, France, son of a miller[1] in a family of eight children.

[2] In 1911 he was one of the founders of the Breton Nationalist Party with Camille Le Mercier d'Erm, co-signing with him its separatist manifesto.

He contributed to the bulletin Brug (heather) published by Émile Masson from Pontivy, between 1913 and 1914, which promoted socialist and radical ideas to the peasantry of Lower Brittany.

[1] Having exiled himself to Switzerland to avoid fighting for France in World War I, he left for Ireland, having been accepted by the United Kingdom as a political refugee in 1916 after France attempted to extradite him;[2] there he established good relations with nationalist leaders although during the same war, he served in the British Army, stationed within Ireland, from June 1916 until he was invalided due to ill-health in September 1917.

[2] Eventually, and perhaps surprisingly, he became private secretary to the British Conservative politician Harold Macmillan,[citation needed] before being killed during the London Blitz of World War II in August 1944 aged 54, when a German V-2 rocket hit the Middlesex Hospital,[3] where he was being treated for influenza.