Ramanantoanina was born in 1891 in Ambatofotsy to a family that belonged to the former Merina aristocracy that had been dissolved upon French colonization in 1896 .
Ambatofotsy is a suburb of Antananarivo in central Madagascar .
Ramanantoanina was born in 1891 in Ambatofotsy , a suburb of Antananarivo in central Madagascar , to a family that belonged to the former Merina aristocracy that had been dissolved upon French colonization in 1896 .