Another color that got its name from the great slaughterhouses

The color Solferino close to Magenta received its name at the same time under similar circumstances after the battle of Solferino. The same year, the same Sardinia, only the troops were commanded not by generals, but by emperors. The troops of France-Napoleon III, the forces of Piedmont and Sardinia-Victor Emmanuel II, and the Austrians-Emperor Franz Joseph. The Franco-Italian coalition won again, but this time the emperors poured blood all around. Literally everything. And again-wounded under the open sky. Tens of thousands of wounded. And again - antiseptic. And again amazed the witnesses figure out how to call this shade. But, by the way, the horror of Solferino we owe not only to color. Swiss Henri Dunant, who witnessed the massacre, was so shocked that on his return to Geneva, wrote a book "Memories of the battle of Solferino" and then, together with Gustave Moignet, a lawyer, creates an organization later called the " international Committee of the red cross»