Thérèse Peltier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thérèse Peltier

French artist

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1873

Place of Birth: Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 18-Feb-1926

Profession: sculptor, aircraft pilot

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Thérèse Peltier (1873 – 1926) was a French sculptor and aviator.
Popularly believed to have been the first ever woman passenger in an airplane she may also have been the first woman to pilot a heavier-than-air craft.
A friend of fellow sculptor Leon Delagrange when he became interested in aviation Peltier soon followed.On 8 July 1908 in Turin Peltier flew as a passenger with Delagrange for a distance of 200 metres (656 feet).
However Henri Farman is reported to have flown or tried to fly with a Mlle P.
Van Pottelsberghe in Ghent, Belgium in late May. Peltier also accompanied Delagrange to Italy and made a solo flight of 200 metres at a height of 2.5 metres at the Military Square in Turin.
The date of this flight is unknown, but it was reported in the weekly Italian magazine L'Illustrazione Italiana of 27 September 1908.When Delagrange died in an airplane accident, on 4 January 1910 at Bordeaux, Peltier left aviation forever.