Who was the Frenchman in charge of the Military Hospital, Val de Grace, in Paris, France, during WWI?
A. MorestinMorestin. Hippolyte Morestin (1869-1919) was born on Martinique and became a military surgeon. His reputation for reconstructive surgery grew in WWI when he treated soldiers from the trenches at his unit in Paris. He was visited by Gillies who set up a similar hospital in Sidcup. He died of TB. The others are all French chefs, although there was also a plastic surgeon called Escoffier.