Guilly d'Herbemont
French inventor of the blind walking stick · France · Scientists · Lived 1888 to 1980 · aged 91
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Something wrong?Guilly d'Herbemont was a French writer and advocate for the blind who popularized the use of white canes. Seeing blind people struggling to cross roads, she proposed distributing white canes for the blind so they could be easily identified.
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Guilly d'Herbemont was a French writer and advocate for the blind who popularized the use of white canes. Seeing blind people struggling to cross roads, she proposed distributing white canes for the blind so they could be easily identified. The police and the local government supported her efforts, and she handed out the first white cane in a ceremony on 7 February 1931. Professionally, she was a writer who produced books and poetry.
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