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About Guilly d'Herbemont
- Guilly d'Herbemont (June 25, 1888 – February 28, 1980) was the inventor of the white cane for blind people.
- Guilly was the daughter of a Belgian and a Frenchman.
- She was born in Brussels as a child, she lived alternately in Brussels and Paris.
- she later moved to Paris as a musician and writer.
- It occurred to her that blind people on the streets of Paris were increasingly endangered by the motorization of transport.
- The police in France used white signal sticks to regulate traffic and stop cars.
- Mrs d'Herbemont had the idea of putting the color white or white-painted sticks visually impaired and blind transporters in order to draw attention to themselves. In 1930, d'Herbemont wrote a letter to the director of the national daily newspaper L'Écho de Paris.
- This letter was published causing much consternation. On February 7, 1931, d'Herbemont symbolically presented, in the presence of several ministers, the first two white canes.
- These were given to a blind soldier and a blind civilian.
- These were followed by the distribution of 5000 white canes to blind French veterans from World War I and blind civilians.
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