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Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 4. The ICRC – or rather its predecessor – was founded in February 1863 at the "Ancient Casino" in the Rue de L'Evêche 3 of Geneva's Old Town by five men: businessman-turned-activist Henry Dunant, who had laid out the basic ideas in his much-acclaimed book A Memory of Solferino; lawyer and philanthropist Gustave Moynier; the medical doctors Louis Appia and Théodor ...
The French Red Cross (French: Croix-Rouge française), or the CRF, is the national Red Cross Society in France founded in 1864 and originally known as the Société française de secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM). Recognized as a public utility since 1945, the French Red Cross is one of the 191 national societies of the International Red ...
Croix-Rouge station (French pronunciation: [kʁwɑ ʁuʒ]) was the first terminus of Line 10 of the Paris Métro. It opened in 1923, but closed in 1939. It opened in 1923, but closed in 1939. The station was situated in the 6th arrondissement of Paris , between Sèvres–Babylone and Mabillon .
It has preserved this motto while other Red Cross organizations have adopted others. Due to Geneva's location in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the ICRC is also known under its initial French name Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR). However, the ICRC has three official languages (English, French and Spanish).
The league moved its secretariat from Geneva to Paris in 1922 with a restrained budget and reduced staff. The need to move away from the ICRC to further develop the league's own identity was part of the decision-making. On September 5, 1939, days following the German troops invasion of Poland, the league personnel in Paris were moved to Geneva.
The Marché de la Croix-Rousse (Croix-Rousse Market) extends for about 1 km along the boulevard every week from Tuesday to Sunday. The Vogue des Marrons fair takes place along the boulevard every autumn. There is a Christmas market (Village de Noël) in December each year at the Place de la Croix-Rousse , which is adjacent to the boulevard.
The Cameroon Red Cross Society (CRC, French: Croix-Rouge camerounaise) was established on 30 April 1960. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has its headquarters in Yaoundé and is headed by Léonie Cécile . [ 3 ]
The terminus of Croix-Rouge received only four hundred daily passengers, and Varenne station , the least frequented station of the entire métro network, saw only three hundred passengers per day. As a result, only ten trains of six cars serviced the line, two motor cars serving as first class cars, which saw so little traffic that they were ...