Geneviève Hennet de Goutel
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Geneviève Hennet de Goutel | |
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| Born | 11 April 1885 Paris, France |
| Died | 4 March 1917 (aged 31) |
| Occupation | Nurse |
| Organization | Société de Secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM) |
| Awards | Croix de guerre Médaille d'honneur des épidémies (Medal of Honor of the epidemics) Croix de la Reine Marie (Romania) |
Geneviève Hennet de Goutel (1885 – 1917) was a French nurse who served during the First World War.
Her maternal family was from Arles, France. She was born in Paris and was active in Saint-Germain-des-Près in Paris. Upon the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, she decided to join the French Red Cross and become a nurse at 29 years old.[1]
From September to October 1916 she directed an auxiliary hospital, before joining a medical mission to Bucharest, where she trained Romanian nurses and wrote a manual for future nurses.[1]
Upon the German army's advances upon Bucharest in December 1916, the mission relocated to Jassy (Iași) where the nurses operated a makeshift field hospital at an abandoned villa, Greierul.[2] She contracted typhus due to direct contact with contagious patients. After a month-long illness, she died in March 1917.[1] Marie of Romania reportedly visited her often during her illness.[1]
Shortly after her death, sections of her wartime correspondence was published in the Bulletin de la Croix-Rouge.[2]
In 2017, her war diary and letters were compiled by Roxana Eminescu and published.[2]
She received the Croix de guerre, Médaille d'honneur des épidémies (Medal of Honor of the epidemics) and the Croix de la Reine Marie (Romania) in recognition of her service.[1]
She was buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Brunet, Sébastien (January 2015). "Une infirmière dans la Grande Guerre" [A nurse in the Great War]. Ville d'Arles [City of Arles].
- ^ a b c Leroux-Hugon, Véronique (2017-10-16). "Geneviève Hennet de Goutel : Écrits de guerre et d'amour - APA" [Geneviève Hennet de Goutel: Writings of War and Love]. L’Association pour l'autobiographie et le patrimoine autobiographique [The association for autobiography and autobiographical heritage] (in French).
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