Talk:Guilly d'Herbemont

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I reworded this. The data seems to come from the web page listed under external links (I do not consider this authoritative). Oddly I can't find an article on this in the French wikipedia, but I don't speak French so I could easily have missed it (or there may be a difference in spelling).

The original version stated:


 * In 1930, a letter d'Herbemont wrote to the director of the one big national dailies of the time, the Écho de Paris was published, alarming the prefect of the police force and the director of the municipal police force.


 * On February 7, 1931, d'Herbemont gave in the Cercle Intérallié, Guilly d' Herbemont gives, symbolically, in the presence of several ministers, the first two white canes with the President of the blind men of war and a blind man civil, these two canes opening walk with the 5.000 white canes which it finances of its own sums of money.

I tried to retain the information while fixing the grammar into native English. RJFJR 17:19, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Should this be expanded? RJFJR (talk) 18:24, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Date of death
I have no idea how authoritative this is, but it says she died in 1980.  Cottonshirt  τ   14:27, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Other Claimants
We have another contender for the inventor of the cane for the blind. From an article in the Howard County Times comes news of Warren Bledsoe of Maryland in the United States who, it is claimed, also "invented" the cane for the blind. I do not claim to be an expert in this but from my limited reading so far it seems that Miss G d'H did not actually "invent" the cane. It seems that in the Paris of her day the police carried a white cane they used to stop traffic with. Miss G d'H seemingly suggested that blind people be given the same cane for the same purpose; so that they could stop traffic and cross the street safely. Enter Warren Bledsoe who, it seems, in company with Dr. Richard Hoover, extended the use of the cane by introducing the "long cane" technique so familiar to us today. Anyone considering expanding this article might like to read: American Council of the Blind or the Wikipedia article White Cane  Cottonshirt  τ   19:46, 31 May 2011 (UTC)