Author's Introduction

(1916)

Published for the benefit of

Le Bien�tre du Bless�, Soci�t�

Franco-Am�ricaine pour nos Combattants.

LE BIEN�TRE DU BLESS�

(In France)

Pr�sidente d�Honneur: Madame Poincar�

Pr�sidente: Madame la Marquise d�Andign�

Vice-Pr�sidentes:

Mme. Ernest Mallet

Mme. la G�n�rale Pau

Mme. la Princesse Poniatowska

Mme. la Comtesse de Roussy de Sales

Mme. la Marquise de Talleyrand-P�rigord

Mme. Waddington

Secr�taire-G�n�ral: M. Prosper Gervais

Tresorier: M. Georges Munroe

Membres du Conseil:

Mrs. Atherton

Mrs. Bell

Mme. la Marquise de Belloy

Mme. la Marquise de Berckheim

Mrs. Bliss

Mrs. Ridgely Carter

M. le G�n�ral de Don Chamoin

Mme. Chauffard

Mrs. Lee Childe

Mme. Cottin

Mrs. William Crocker

Miss Crocker

Mme. Paul Dupuy

Mrs. Deming Jarves

Mme. Gabriel Hanotaux

M. le Vicomte Emmanual d�Harcourt

Mrs. Herman Harjes

Mrs. Harper

Mme. la Comtesse d�Haussonville

Mme. la G�n�rale H�ly d�Oissel

Mrs. James Hyde

Mme. la Marquise des Isnards

Mme. la G�n�rale de Lagarenne

Mme. la G�n�rale de Lamaze

Mme. Legueu

Mme. la Comtesse du Luart

Mme. la Marquise de Montebello

Mme. N�laton

Mme. la Marquise de Noailles

Mme. la Princesse de Poggio-Suasa Ruspoli

M. le Comte Jacques de Pourtal�s

Mrs. Georges Rheims

Mme. la Baronne Seilli�re

Mrs. Lawrence Slade

M. Marcel Tr�lat

M. le Comte Louis de Vog��

Mrs. Samuel Watson

M. l�Abb� Wetterl�

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LE BIEN�TRE DU BLESS�

(American Central Committee)

Honorary President:

Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt

Honorary Vice-Presidents:

Mrs. Charles B. Alexander

Mrs. Robert Bacon

Mrs. E. H. Harriman

Mrs. Oliver Harriman

President:

Mrs. Atherton

Hon. Secretary:

Miss Elsa Maxwell

Executive Secretary:

Mrs. Holmes Beckwith

Executive Chairman:

Mr. John Moffat

Treasurer:

Messrs. John Munroe & Co.

30 Pine Street

Committee:

Mrs. Frederick H. Allen

Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler

Mrs. Francis Carolan

Mrs. Henry Clews

Mrs. Wm. Astor Chanler

Mrs. Cornelius C. Cuyler

Mrs. John R. Drexel

Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson

Mrs. Benjamin Guinness

Mrs. Bell Gurnee

Mrs. Cooper Hewett

Mrs. Arthur Islin

Mrs. William Jay

Mrs. Lawrence Keene

Mrs. Otto Kahn

Mrs. Philip Lydig

Mrs. Walter Maynard

Mrs. James Lowell Putnam

Mrs. George Christopher Riggs (Kate Douglas Wiggin)

Miss Lota Robinson

Mrs. Lawrence Townsend

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer

Advisory Committee:

Mr. Frederick H. Allen

Hon. James M. Beck

Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Pres., University of Columbia

Hon. Joseph H. Choate

Mr. Owen Johnson

The Marquis de Polignac

Mr. George Haven Putnam

The Due de Richelieu

Mr. Frederick A. Stokes