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The “Memoires” of Henry Dunant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

In our December 1969 issue we called attention to the first volume of the “Henry Dunant Institute Collection” containing “Un Souvenir de Solférino” and some of Dunant's unpublished writings under the general title “L'Avenir sanglant”. The collection has now been enriched with a new volume entitled “Mémoires” which the Henry Dunant Institute is editing in French, jointly with the Éditions de l'Age d'homme, Lausanne. The book was compiled and presented by Professor Bernard Gagnebin, Dean of the Geneva University Faculty of Arts. He undertook the selection of the manuscripts—102 exercise books—found in three boxes deposited with the Geneva University Public Library. This was a difficult and delicate task, as Professor Gagnebin himself admits in a lengthy introduction: “the Mémoires were not in the form of a continuous text but of an unfinished work. We reconstituted them from more than thirty exercise books and we divided them into thirty-four chapters”.

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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1971

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page 243 note 1 Dunant, Henry, Mémoires, 1971, 368 pp.Google Scholar Price 25 Swiss francs. The book is offered at the special price of 20 Swiss francs to Red Cross members applying direct to the Henry Dunant Institute, 3 rue de Varembé, 1202 Geneva.

page 245 note 1 It would be desirable for every country to bear in mind this recommendation by the famous Professor von Langenbeck. Even more, in accordance with an excellent idea which came to light in Austria, children should be explained the principles of the convention with which they should be indoctrinated.

page 249 note 1 For more on Dunant and the Red Cross, and this particular aspect of the personality of the author of Souvenir de Solférino, see the book by Willy Heudtlass entitled Henry Dunant published in Germany by W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1962