Marie Marvingt

Marie Marvingt , born with Aurillac (Cantal) the February 20th 1875 and died with Nancy the December 14th 1963, called “been engaged of the danger”, is a pionnière of aviation in France and one of the best mountaineers of the beginning of the century. Laid off in letters and speaking seven languages - of which the Esperanto -, it was titular of thirty decorations.

Biography

In 1880, his/her parents move with Metz; in 1889, it settle with Nancy, number 8 of the place of the Career. It remains always very attached to the Lorraine and Nancy.

It is large sporting whose currency - “I decide to always make better still and” - enabled him to be holder of seventeen world records and it is the most decorated woman. She is among the first titular women of the Permis to lead, which she obtains since 1899. She also passes four (plane, balloon, seaplane, helicopter) and pilot pilot's licenses also of the airships.

In 1908, it presented its candidature to take part in the Tour de France cyclist. The organizers having refused, it makes the same course as the men, by taking the departure later that them. She invents the sanitary aviation in 1910. In 1960, old of eighty-five years, it flies the first French jet helicopter, the Djinn.

“The queen of the air”, “Marie breakage-neck”, “the untiring sphere-second hand”, “the eternal curious one”, “the most extraordinary woman of the century”, “the most extraordinary woman since Jeanne d' Arc”, “the woman most decorated in the world”: she remains a model of dynamism and faith in the human being. She practices many Sports at one time when the image of the French woman was quite simply that of a good housewife. She practices the Natation, the Cyclisme, the Alpinisme, the Aéronautique, the Aviation, the horsemanship, the Gymnastique, the Athlétisme, the Escrime, the plays of address: shooting, Tennis, Golf, Sports shirt. In all the sports it shines and in the forefront. She likes the risk, the fight and the effort.

A drawing of Emile Friant in 1914 shows Marie Marvingt assisting an army medical officer with the second plan, an ambulance aircraft.

To Nancy and in its suburbs, several public buildings bear its name, in particular a elementary school with Vézelise, a nursery school with Saint-Nicolas-of-Port, a gymnasium and a Lycée with Tomblaine. In Aurillac, a street, a gymnasium and a flying-club bear its name.

In 2004, the French Post office published a postal Timbre in homage to Marie Marvingt.

Decorations

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