During the more than a hundred years of his life, the agronomist Adolphe Audéoud (1866-1968) campaigned for a Christian society without alcoholism and prostitution. In the last quarter of the 19th century, he became a member of the Genevan Abolitionist Society whose aim was to “cure” what was seen as a “social disease” affecting Geneva. By purchasing numerous objects representing other evils to be got rid of in the world, like slavery in Africa, he gave a global base to his local commitment. F. Rossinelli