1. Jules Grand was a French physician, writer, Theosophist, and vegetarianism activist.
11 Facts About Jules Grand
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Jules Grand served as president of the French Vegetarian Society.
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Jules Grand was a physician at the Ecole de Medecine de Paris.
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Jules Grand was an associate editor of the 1893 and 1894 Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences and Analytical Index.
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Jules Grand was the president of the French Vegetarian Society from its formation in 1899.
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Jules Grand was elected to the management committee in 1905 with biologist Jules Lefevre and other physicians.
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Jules Grand authored the introduction to Louise Smeeckaert's La table du vegetarien, published by the Society.
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Jules Grand argued in his essays that meat is responsible for the degeneration of the French nation.
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Jules Grand stated that a vegetarian diet could prevent the misuse of alcohol.
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Jules Grand combined Theosophy and vegetarianism in his book Hygiene rationnelle vegetarisme, published in 1912, stating that humans have a responsibility to protect animals.
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Jules Grand's vegetarianism incorporated theosophical ideas of an astral body and reincarnation.