Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix

Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix

Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix (Geneva, 1 November 1850 – Geneva, 6 December 1934) was a Swiss nurse, feminist and suffragette. She was one of four employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross after the Great War.[1] The International Council of Women took her as their organisation's President from 1920-22.[2]

References

  1. Heide Fehrenbach; Davide Rodogno (23 February 2015). Humanitarian Photography. Cambridge University Press. pp. 164–. ISBN 978-1-107-06470-6.
  2. Janz & Schönpflug 2014, p. 51.

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