Louis Bastien (Mai sa ran)

**Louis Marie Jules Charles Bastien** (21 ga Disamba, 1869 a Obernai, kusa da Strasbourg - 10 ga Afrilu, 1961) ya kasance Esperantist na Faransa kuma kwata-kwata a cikin Sojojin Faransa. A shekara ta 1899 ya auri Marguerite Pfulb (1879-1941); ma'auratan suna da 'ya'ya mata uku da' ya'ya maza biyu. A makaranta ya koyi lissafi, wallafe-wallafen Faransanci na gargajiya, Latin da Girkanci kuma ya koyi yin ayar Latin. Bayan shekara guda na karatun shirye-shirye a l'Ecole Sainte-Geneviève a Versailles ya shiga l'Ecola Polytechnique a 1887 yana da shekara 17. Ba shi da tsufa kamar yadda tsofaffin abokan karatunsa, bai yi fice a karatunsa ba kuma, a lokacin da ya kammala karatu a 1889, dole ne ya gamsu da kansa da aikin soja.

## Ayyukan Sojojin Faransa
An ba shi izini a matsayin mataimakin mataimakin Sojojin Faransa, Bastien ya yi karatun injiniyan soja a Fontainebleau kuma an tura shi tare da Kamfanin Injiniya na Biyu a Arras (Pas-de-Calais). 

### Yakin Madagascar
A shekara ta 1895 gwamnatin Faransa ta tura shi kan kamfen na azabtarwa zuwa Madagascar. Sarauniya Ranavalona III ta ki amincewa da Yarjejeniyar Lambert, takarda ta 1855 wacce ta ba wa dangin Faransa damar amfani da albarkatun Madagascar kuma wanda, bayan Burtaniya ta yi watsi da ikirarin mulkin mallaka ga tsibirin, yadda ya kamata ya sanya tsibirin ya zama mai kariya ta Faransa. Bastien ne ke da alhakin hulɗa na telegraphic, ta amfani da tsarin telegraphique na Claude Chappe, wanda nau'i-nau'i na masu horar da ma'aikata za su tura saƙonni daga hasumiya ɗaya zuwa na gaba. Hasumiyoyin Chappe sun raba kusan kilomita 14 tsakanin Mahajanga, inda sojojin suka sauka, da kuma matsayin sojojin da ke ci gaba a Antananarivo, babban birnin. Shi kaɗai a cikin karusar da aka ja da doki mai ƙafa biyu, Bastien zai bincika layin hasumiyoyin sigina a cikin ƙananan yankuna da maras kyau tsakanin Mahajanga da Maevatanana, sannan ya bi tsaunuka masu tsawo tare da Kogin Betsiboka zuwa Antananarivo . &nbsp;

Yawancin sojoji daga Faransa da suka mutu a yakin Madagascar sun rasa rayukansu ba a yaƙi da mutanen yankin da ba su da makamai kuma ba a tsara su ba amma daga "zazzabin cizon sauro. " A cikin imani cewa wannan zazzabin cizor sauro (wanda yanzu ake kira zazzabin sauro) yana dauke da ruwa, an umarci sojoji su sha ruwa kawai. Ba har sai bayan shekaru uku ba ne Sir Ronald Ross ya tabbatar da cewa dalilin zazzabin cizon sauro kwayar cuta ce da sauro ta Anopheles ta watsa.

### Sojojin Faransa
Bayan da aka ayyana Madagascar a matsayin Mulkin mallaka na Faransa a shekara ta 1896, Bastien ya koma Faransa, don a ajiye shi a Amiens, inda ya kammala aikinsa na Licence en droit (Bachelor of Laws) don ya cancanci l*'Intendance* (Sojojin Supply Corps). Ya saba cewa: "Da yake soja ne a cikin sojoji ba tare da Kasuwanci ba, zan iya zaɓar ƙwarewar soja kawai. " Bastien ya cika a fannoni da yawa - mutum mai rubutu, masanin lissafi, mai tunani da mai gudanarwa - komai sai dai jarumi, duk da cewa mai kishin ƙasa ne kuma mutum ne mai lamiri. An yarda da shi a l'École Supérieure de l'Intendance (yanzu fr:École militaire supérieure d'administration et de management) kuma bayan ya karbi layi na huɗu a matsayin Kwamandan (matsayi daidai da Major - kowane quartermaster babban jami'in ne), ya bi hanyar da ta kai shi cikin matsayi zuwa Besançon, Lons-le-Saulnier, Spinal, Valenciennes, Commercy da Châlons-sur-Marne.

Lokacin da Yaƙin Duniya na I ɓarke, Bastien yana Saint-Brieuc, kuma sassansa guda biyar sun nuna matsayinsa na Lieutenant-Colonel. Ya bi abubuwan da suka faru a yakin tare da cakuda bege da baƙin ciki. A ƙarshen yaƙin, ya kasance Quartermaster-General, aji na biyu a Paris, kuma a cikin 1919 ya tafi Strasbourg don aiki a matsayin darektan Supply Corps na gundumar Alsace. 

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