Louise Faure-Favier

Louise Faure-Favier (December 12, 1870 – March 5, 1961) was a French writer and aviator. She is considered by some to be the first French woman to work as a professional journalist.[1]

She was born Jeanne Lucie Augustine Claudia Faure-Favier in Firminy.[1][2]

Faure-Favier travelled on the first civil aviation flight in France. She developed the first official guides in France for aviation tourism. With Lucien Bossoutrot, she set a speed record for a flight between Paris and Dakar in 1919 and, in 1930, set a speed record for the return flight. She was a passenger on the first commercial night flight between Paris and London and wrote about it in the magazine L'Illustration. She took part in the first live radio broadcast from a plane flying over Paris.[1][2]

Her 1928 novel Blanche et Noir reflects her optimism about race relations in France and her belief in the civilizing influence of women. Faure-Favier also wrote the first French novel about civil aviation. In 1945, she published a memoir about her friend Guillaume Apollinaire.[3][2]

References
  1. "Louise Faure-Favier (1870-1961)" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  2. Boittin, Jennifer Anne (2010). Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris. pp. 69–74. ISBN 0803225458.
  3. Berliner, Brett A (2002). Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-age France. pp. 61–62. ISBN 1558493565.
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