Marcel Lindsay Noe-Roi des Corsaires

Photo: Marcel with General Nebout & Yves-Alain Corporeau










Question:
What is the most precious of your childhood memories?
Answer:Growing up in Rose Belle, in the Mauritian countryside...and going to school in New Grove.
Secondary schooling at St Esprit College and carefree teenage years.

Question:
When did you or your parents migrate to Australia?
Answer:
I came to Melbourne in 1968 with a very young family. For the adventure, more so than for fleeing the economic and political situation back home.

Question:
What is it that you like most about the Australian way of life?
Answer:
A land of plenty where your hard work can get you just about anything.

Question:
What did you do in your first job or occupation?
Answer:
Medical Representative

Question:
What are / were your career highlights?
Answer:
Youngest Sales Manager in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Topping Australia at the Marketing Exams.
Creating "La Bonne Vie" and introducing the first French beer, Brittany Crepes and french wine into mass distribution in Australia.
Delegate General in Australia for the International Festival of the Sea in Mauritius,1987.
Back in Mauritius publishing lifestyle and Tourist magazines.
Conception and Event Management of "30 year Independence Celebrations" on the Port-Louis Waterfront. Largest crowd in the history of Maurtius (200,000 people)
Conception of Grand Port 2010 Bicentenary celebrations.

Question:
What is your favourite book?
Answer:
Surcouf Roi des Corsaires.

Question:
What do you like most in people?
Answer:
Straightforwardness& Honesty. (What you see is what you get).
Humour & Smiles.
Culture.

Question:
Who do you admire most?
Answer:
(Past): Mahatma Gandhi
(Present): Nelson Mandela

Question:
What is your favourite dish?
Answer:
(Mauritian): Freshly caught Fish in Madras Curry sauce ++ all the side dishes...
(International): Smoked Salmon (fished in the wild by fishing lines not nets, preventing the bruises) & Alaskan Crab.

Question:
What is your most valuable trait / personal quality?
Answer:
Open mindedness and resilience.

Question:
Tell us about your most worthwhile achievement(s)?
Answer:
After 15 years work, creating "1810 Grand Port - Historic Village & Shipyard"
My Magnum Opus.

Question:
What is the most memorable moment in your life?
Answer:
Falling in love for the first of many times.

Question:
If you could wave a magic wand and do something that you desire most, what would it be?
Answer:
Eradicate all religious and political differences. The creation of One Race : The Human Race.
Creation of total Harmony.

Question:
What is most precious to you at this point in your life?
Answer:
My honour and the image I shall leave for my children to live with.

Question:
What are your plans for the future?
Answer:
Completing my Historical Village and continuing to work in the cultural field.
Writing my memoirs.