[The pharmacist Henri Arrault (1799-1887) and his work for army ambulances, precursor of the convention of Geneva and George Sand's friend].
Established as a community pharmacist outside Paris in Monmartre, Arrault was a creative man. From 1830, he supplied the French army with medical equipments. Several army surgeons among his close relatives provided him a special skill. He is known to have anticipated the convention of Geneva when he published in 1861 a brochure in which he asked the authorities to adopt an international rule for neutralising the wounded people and the health staff on the battlefields. He engaged a controversy against Henri Dunant in which George Sand gave him a large support. Its eclectic activities were as well connected to politics as he belonged to the republican party. In 1871, he was elected at the council of Paris.
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