Project Description

Watercolor

Dimensional view : 22 cm x 30 cm

Unsigned and attributed to Guérin de Belleit Renée Jeanne

Bouquet of daisies and sweet peas

Guerin Charvet Renée (1880-1961) – Maiden name Guerin de Beillet

Officer of the Legion of Honor,
Military Cross 7 citations,
Holder of the English Red Cross (English Red Cross) and the epidemic medal

Military nurse in 1914-1918.

The creation of the National Association of War Wounded and Mutilated Nurses (AIBMG).

“Un problème clé était que lorsque les soldats étaient blessés ou tombaient malades, they were usually treated in the same hospital where they worked and therefore did not go through the admission process and were demobilized without the required papers – hospital card. Many nurses were forced to try to find the doctors who had treated them in order to retrospectively sign certificates that were not necessarily subsequently accepted by the authorities..

In response, Renée Guérin-Charvet founded the National Association of War Wounded and Disabled Nurses (AIBMG) in 1923. The AIBMG was a small association that only numbered around 350 members, but fought to gain influence and audience for their demands. She also enjoyed a long life and was still active after WWII.. Guérin-Charvet was the daughter of a general and a highly decorated disabled war nurse.

So she was able to exert a certain influence, she was part of the first board of directors, for example, of the Association des Grands Invalides de Guerre. In 1924, AIBMG persuaded General Paul Pau, President of the French Red Cross, write an article on their behalf in a trade journal. The AIBMG also organized a meeting with the King of Italy, who was photographed by the press shaking hands with Guérin-Charvet.

guerin charvet de belleit renee vistie du roi d'italy

In 1923, Humbert Ricolfi, deputy member of the center right of the Democratic Republican Union, proposed an amendment to the law allowing nurses to benefit from the article 64, and the AIBMG managed to appeal to the veterans’ association and the French women’s movement to support it. The annual conference of 1924 of the National Council of French Women (CNFF), for example, included a report on the exclusion of retired nurses from free health care.

After the war, she is an active member of the Union of French Women Decorated with the Legion of Honor, whose potential propaganda value for suffragettes and feminists was noted by Louise Weiss in the 1990s 1930 : “his decorations, his wounds and his professions of faith touched many hearts”.

Nurse again during World War II

International Review of the Red Cross 31 : 366 (1949)

Sources :
Great War Heritage Association – Saint Maximin Cemetery (Oise), Military Square, Memorials.
Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War by Alison S. Fell – University of Leeds – Cambridge University Press
Forum PAGES 14-18 The fighters & the history of the Great War

 

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