French Red Cross

French Red Cross
	Croix-Rouge française
	Logo of the French Red Cross
Formation	May 1864
Founder	Henri Dunant
Purpose	Humanitarian Aid
Headquarters	Paris, France
Region	France
President	Jean-Jacques Eledjam
Website	http://www.croix-rouge.fr

The French Red Cross (French: Croix-Rouge française), or the CRF, is the national Red Cross Society in France founded in 1864 and originally known as the Société française de secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM).

Medal of the SSBM (1916)

History

Leaders

Société de Secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM)

1864–1869: Anatole de Montesquiou-Fezensac
1869–1870: Charles-Marie-Augustin de Goyon
1870–1873: Maurice de Flavigny
1873–1886: Duc de Nemours
1887–1893: Patrice de Mac-Mahon
1893–1897: Duc d'Aumale
1897–1903: Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt
1903–1916: Melchior de Vogüé
1916–1918: Louis Renault
1918–1932: Paul Pau
1932–1940: Edmond de Lillers

Comité des Dames de la Société de Secours aux blessés militaires (CDSSBM)

1867–1869: Madame la maréchale Niel
1869–1883: Comtesse de Flavigny
1883–1889: Princesse Czartoriska (fille du duc de Nemours)
1889–1898: Élisabeth de Mac Mahon
1898–1907: Duchesse de Reggio
1907–1923: Comtesse d'Haussonville
1923–1926: Magdeleine Guillemin (1853-1930), marquise de Montebello[1]
1926–1939: Inès de Bourgoing
1939–1940: Mlle d'Haussonville

Association des Dames de France (ADF)

1879: Dr. Duchaussoy.[2] Vice-President: Coralie Cahen.
1880–1906: Countess Foucher de Careil
1907–1913: Madame l'amirale Jaurès
1913–1925: Madame Ernest Carnot
1925–1940: Comtesse de Galard
From 1940: Madame Maurice de Wendel

Union des Femmes de France (UFF)

1881–1906: Madame Koechlin Schwartz
1906–1921: Madame Suzanne Pérouse
1921–1927: Madame Henri Galli
1927–1938: Madame Barbier Hugo
1938–1940: Madeleine Saint-René Taillandier

French Red Cross

1940–1941: Pr. Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot
1941–1942: Pr. Bazy
1942–1944: Gabriel de Mun
1944–1945: Jacques de Bourbon Busset
1945: Pr. Louis Justin Besançon (vice-president) Louis Milliot)
1946–1947: Médecin Général Inspecteur Sice
1947–1955: Georges Brouardel
1955–1967: André François-Poncet
1967–1969: Raymond Debenedetti
1969–1978: Marcellin Carraud
1979–1983: Jean-Marie Soutou
1984–1989: Louis Dauge
1989–1992: Georgina Dufoix
1992—1994: André Delaude
1994–1997: Pierre Consigny
1997–2003: Pr. Marc Gentilini
2004–2013: Pr. Jean-François Mattéi
From 22 June 2013: Pr. Jean-Jacques Eledjam

References

"Notice no. LH/1472/43". Base Léonore, Ministry of Culture (France).
"Doctor Duchaussoy, Fondateur de l'Association des Dames Francaises par James Lignier". Library of Congress. 1919. Retrieved 15 December 2020.

External links

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[1] "Notice no. LH/1472/43". Base Léonore, Ministry of Culture (France).

[2] "Doctor Duchaussoy, Fondateur de l'Association des Dames Francaises par James Lignier". Library of Congress. 1919. Retrieved 15 December 2020.