Raoul Follereau

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Raoul Follereau

Raoul Follereau (born August 17, 1903 in Nevers , † December 17, 1977 in Paris ) was a French writer and journalist. He is known as the "apostle of lepers".

Life

In 1942 Follereau learned about the fate of lepers in Ivory Coast from the Superior General of the Sisters of Notre Dame of the Apostles and has since devoted his life to combating this disease. In the same year, through his initiative, the first village for lepers was built in the Département d'Adzopé .

In 1954 Raoul Follereau introduced World Leprosy Day . In 1955 he wrote letters to the US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and to the Soviet Prime Minister Georgi Maximilianowitsch Malenkow and asked them to provide the price of a bomber for the healing of lepers.

Raoul Follereau was married to Madeleine Boudou from 1925.

The Raoul Follereau Foundation has continued its work since 1984.

Works

  • Give me two bombers ... Ordre de la Charité, Paris around 1956, DNB 573107483 .
  • Revolution of Charity. Translated from the French by Liselotte Haertl. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. u. a. 1968, DNB 456637087 .
  • You cannot be happy alone. 40 years of struggle against egoism. Translated from the French by Roger Kayser. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. u. a. 1969, DNB 456637079 .
  • Do not be silent for love's sake. Translated from the French by Hansjörg Ostertag. Fährmann, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-85077-044-3 .
  • Love drives me. Impulses for the day. Translated from the French by Johann Hoffmann-Herreros. Grünewald, Main 1978, ISBN 3-7867-0701-4 .

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SURNAME Follereau, Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nevers , France
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1977
Place of death Paris , France