Jules Grand Explained

Jules Grand
Birth Date:1846
Death Date:1933
Occupation:Physician, writer, activist

Jules Grand (1846–1933) was a French physician, writer, Theosophist, and vegetarianism activist. He served as president of the French Vegetarian Society.

Career

Grand completed his doctoral thesis in medicine on cataract removal in 1873.[1] Grand was a physician at the École de Médecine de Paris (Paris School of Medicine).[2] He was an associate editor of the 1893 and 1894 Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences and Analytical Index.[3] [4]

Grand was the president of the French Vegetarian Society from its formation in 1899.[5] He was elected to the management committee in 1905 with biologist Jules Lefèvre and other physicians.[6] By 1906 there were 800 members of the Society.[5] In 1901, the Society published his book La Philosophie de I' alimentation ("The Philosophy of Food").[5] Grand also authored the introduction to Louise Smeeckaert's La table du végétarien, published by the Society.[7]

Grand made anatomical, physiological and ethical arguments for vegetarianism.[8] In June 1900, he was chairman and a speaker at the International Vegetarian Congress organized in Paris.[9] In his speech he commented "that vegetarianism contributes powerfully to making the better man; that it ensures his intellectual capacity; softens his relations with his fellow men and makes them more fraternal".[8] He argued in his essays that meat is responsible for the degeneration of the French nation.[10] He stated that a vegetarian diet could prevent the misuse of alcohol.[11] A paper he wrote on vegetarianism was read at the International Vegetarian Union's 1926 congress.[12] He was an opponent of vivisection.[13]

Theosophy

Grand combined Theosophy and vegetarianism in his book Hygiene rationnelle vegetarisme ("Rational Hygiene, Vegetarianism"), published in 1912, stating that humans have a responsibility to protect animals. His vegetarianism incorporated theosophical ideas of an astral body and reincarnation.[5] Grand also lectured on Theosophy in Amsterdam.[5]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Notice bibliographique . 2024-11-30 . BnF Catalogue général . fr-FR.
  2. Book: Oliveira, Castro . Elements of Therapeutics and Practice According to the Dosimetric System . 1888 . . New York . xii . HathiTrust.
  3. Book: Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences and Analytical Index . 1893 . . Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and London . ix . en.
  4. Book: Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences and Analytical Index . 1894 . . Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and London . vii . en.
  5. Book: Crossley, Ceri . Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes Towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France . 2005 . . 0-8204-7175-5 . Oxford . 242–257.
  6. Book: International Commission for Research into European Food History . Order and Disorder: The Health Implications of Eating and Drinking in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium of the International Commission for Research Into European Food History, Aberdeen 1997 . 2000 . Tuckwell Press . 978-1-86232-117-5 . Fenton . Alexander . East Linton . 221 . Internet Archive.
  7. Book: La table du végétarien . . Introduction by Jules Grand; preface by Hélène Sosnowska . 1930 . Paris . fr-FR . The Vegetarian's Table . 717061043.
  8. Bernard . Léo . 2021 . Le végétarisme théosophique en France : de l'adeptat au militantisme (1880-1940) . Politica Hermetica . fr-FR . 35 . 71–98 . HAL.
  9. News: 1900-07-13 . World's Vegetarian Congress at the Paris Exhibition . . 5.
  10. Albert Shaw (journalist) . January–June 1901 . Shaw . Albert . Albert Shaw (journalist) . A Plea for Vegetarianism . . 23 . 78 . Internet Archive.
  11. Edman . Johan . 2015 . Temperance and Modernity: Alcohol Consumption as a Collective Problem, 1885–1913 . . 49 . 1 . 20–52 . 10.1093/jsh/shv029.
  12. Web site: History of the French Vegetarian Societies . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240520224753/https://ivu.org/history/societies/french.html . 2024-05-20 . . en-GB.
  13. Book: Goodridge, A. R. . What is Vivisection? . 1907 . . New York . 149 . HathiTrust.
  14. Web site: 2023. Deborah Coltham Rare Books: Spring Miscellany II: Firsts London Issue. Deborah Coltham Rare Books. en-GB. October 4, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20241004005938/https://www.dcrb.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Spring-Miscellay-II-Firsts-Selection.pdf. live.
  15. News: July 21, 1905 . What Shall We Eat? Vegetarians v. Cannibals . The Clarion . 7 . Findmypast.
  16. Book: Le vin . . 1919 . Paris . 493620805.

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