Henry Dunant Red on the Cross

Henry Dunant son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria when the colonists are thirsty he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them After his Uncle Dr Hubert Dunant diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus just malaria also his first meeting dropping drawers in hospital for a shot with nurse Cécile Thuillier and meeting his careerist brother Daniels fiancée Léonie BourgThibourg daughter of the firms boss the board approves his plan On his way to the emperor who didnt even concede to receive him Henry gets stuck in Castiglione part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to liberate his Geneva friend Dr Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant