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Louis-Clément Picalausa (1898 – 19 November 1969) was one of Belgium's first Scouts and a Scout novelist, chief scout of the Boy-Scouts van België until 1940. The landscape of the Belgian Ardennes inspired him in the writing of his scout novels. His parents nicknamed him "the man of the woods." He was already camping by 1912, and was Scoutmaster of the 1st Seraing Scout Group in 1919, and became Deputy Camp Chief and Akela (national Cub Scout leader, National Commissioner in 1929, then Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of Belgium until 1940.