Noëlle Roger

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Noëlle Roger , pseudonym of Hélène Dufour-Pittard (born September 25, 1874 in Geneva , † October 14, 1953 ibid), was a French-speaking Swiss writer. She wrote novels, short stories, travelogues and reports on the Swiss Red Cross and Switzerland's humanitarian commitment in the First World War.

Life

Hélène Dufour wrote poetry in her youth and was interested in painting. She decided to become a writer and wrote her first novel, Larmes d'enfant , in 1896 , which was already published under her pseudonym Noëlle Roger. She derived this from the backward reading of the first name of her brother Léon and the first name of her younger brother Roger.

After a stay in London , where she trained as a journalist, she married the Geneva anthropologist and ethnographer Eugène Pittard in 1900 . She then toured Albania and Turkey with him and wrote about her travels. When the First World War broke out, she learned to be a nurse and helped wounded soldiers in a hospital in Lyon . She reported on the war in novels and notes. In the 1920s she wrote science fiction. In the 1940s she wrote about the world of children, as well as biographies about Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Madame de Staël and Henry Dunant .

Fernand Gigon wrote the original manuscript about the life of Henry Dunant, a screenplay for a film biography, based on Hélène Dufour in 1943.

Humanitarian engagement in the First World War

During the First World War, as a citizen of neutral Switzerland, she acted in a practical and humanitarian manner. She helped care for French wounded in nearby Lyon . She described their fate in The Nurse's Diary. From French hospitals . In Le train des grands blessés , she describes the exchange of French and German prisoners, injured soldiers across Switzerland between the border stations in Geneva and Constance . In Le Passage des Évacués à travers la Suisse , she describes the transit of Belgian war refugees, civil internees and evacuees from enemy-occupied provinces through Switzerland via the border towns of Schaffhausen and Geneva . In Soldats internés en Suisse , she describes Switzerland's assistance by interning wounded French and German soldiers for the purpose of convalescence . Au sortir des camps allemands .

philosophy

She was interested in all areas of human existence. Her approach was shaped by her thirst for knowledge, her sensitive, psychological, cultural and spiritual orientation and her tendency to perfect.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Arnold: The Geneva writer Noëlle Roger (1874–1953) and her participation in the internee exchange in the First World War. In: “ Hegau-Geschichtsverein ”, year book 73/2016, pp. 258–260.
  2. ↑ a b Papiers Noëlle Roger. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Geneva Library , accessed on September 11, 2017 (French, with curriculum vitae, written in 1991 by Françoise Pittard, and list of publications).
  3. ↑ Alice Holenstein-Beereuter: Gigon, Fernand. Historical lexicon of Switzerland, accessed on June 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ 1943, Henry Dunant, Gotthard-Film. Gotthard film, accessed on June 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ 1943, Biography about Henry Dunant. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Georges Lecomte: Rapport sur les concours littéraires de l'année 1948. (PDF; 104 kB) Séance publique annuelle. Académie française , December 16, 1948, accessed on September 12, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Roger, Noëlle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dufour-Pittard, Hélène (real name); Dufour, Hélène (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-speaking Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1953
Place of death Geneva , Switzerland