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1994
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Evelyne Diebolt et al., « 1917-1923 : Les Américaines en Soissonnais, leur influence sur la France », Revue Française d'Études Américaines, ID : 10.3406/rfea.1994.1527
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This article does not attempt to cover the activities of all the American women in France during the war of 1914-1918, it rather has limited itself to the modest aim of studying a specific group of American volunteer women : those who intiated, developed and ran the American Committee for Devasted France, the CARD. The war brought them in 1917 to the Soissons area where they organized with great efficiency the most urgent relief efforts. After the Armistice, they participated very actively — as had been their project from the beginning — in the reconstruction of the region. They thus implanted in France American methods and models which were to have long-lasting effect on French society.