Joseph François Lambert
b. 1823/4
French adventurer and businessman. Merchant in Mauritius. Following the emancipation of slaves in French colonies, carried "free labourers" from Africa to Réunion. Arrived in Madagascar in 1855, and became involved in politics, and the relationship between French, British, and Madagascan rulers. Formed and managed the Compagnie de Madagascar, Foncière, Industrielle, et Commerciale, 1855.
Sources
S. P. Oliver 1885, p. 15
S. P. Oliver 1886.
Bibliography
Oliver, Samuel Pasfield. 1885. The true story of the French dispute in Madagascar. London: T. Fisher Unwin.
Oliver, Samuel Pasfield. 1886. Madagascar: an historical and descriptive account of the island and its former dependencies. 2 vols. London and New York: Macmillan.