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Title: American Red Cross work among the French people
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ames, Fisher
Subjects: American National Red Cross World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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urs^ auto-ambulanceunits, schools for mutiles, places of shelter for refugees andprisoners, and cercles a foyers du soldat By its ablemanagement of these many-fold forms of service it proveditself an organization with few equals. No list of the relief societies of the capital would becomplete without the name of the Croix-Verte which fromthe most humble of beginnings grew to be a great powerfor the dissemination of war charity. Unlike the Croix-Bouge it was non-existent before 1914, and was born bychance in the Montparnasse railway station where soonafter the commencement of hostilities a French coupleand their friend observed a detachment of troops waitingfor the train that was to carry them to the front. Therewas no buffet where the hungry men could refresh them-selves and no comfortable place in which they could rest.The idea of providing for these simple needs occurred to the three spectators and was immediately acted upon.Permission was secured to install a little kitchen at which
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o W CO O M 2; IN PARIS 5 the two women prepared and served tea and coffee to thesoldiers, and thus the work of VAcceuil, the first of the ac-tivities of the Croix-Yerte, was created. Starting with a personnel of three this infant society de-veloped a membership of many thousands. Gradually itincreased the number of its kitchens which were soon pre-paring a full meal for the troops. In the meantime itlaunched its second enterprise, UAcceuil aux Re fugles,which fed the convoys of fugitives pouring into the city.Its most important service was the founding of a vestiairewhere clothes were provided for refugees and wounded whowere returning to civil life. It was one of the first of therelief associations to concern itself with the future of thereformes and its policy of giving work instead of alms to the mutilated soldier received the approbation of allFrance. It inaugurated also a system of visits to the hos-pitals by which divers forms of aid were given patients,particularly of the poorer

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