Geneviève Hennet de Goutel

Geneviève Hennet de Goutel (18851917) was a French nurse who served during the First World War.

Her maternal family was from Arles, France. She was born in Paris and was active in Saint-Germain-des-Près in Paris. Upon the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, she decided to join the French Red Cross and become a nurse at 29 years old.

From September to October 1916 she directed an auxiliary hospital, before joining a medical mission to Bucharest, where she trained Romanian nurses and wrote a manual for future nurses.

She received the Croix de guerre, Médaille d'honneur des épidémies (Medal of Honor of the epidemics) and the Croix de la Reine Marie (Romania) in recognition of her service. Geneviève Hennet de Goutel, Écrits de guerre et d'amour , L'Harmattan, 2017.