Louise Faure-Favier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louise Faure-Favier

French writer and aviator

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1870

Place of Birth: Firminy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 05-Mar-1961

Profession: writer, journalist, aircraft pilot

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.She was born Jeanne Lucie Augustine Claudia Faure-Favier in Firminy.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.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.