Marie-Louise Driancourt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French aviator (1887-1914)
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Place of Birth: 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Marie-Louise Driancourt
- Marie-Louise Driancourt (née Martin, 1887 - 1914) was a pioneering French pilot.
- She was the sixth woman in the world to receive a pilot licence.Driancourt was born in Lyon, France, and later moved to Paris where she married and had three children.
- Her husband, an aviation enthusiast himself, encouraged her to take up flying, and she began flying lessons in 1910 at the Blériot school near Chartres.
- In 1911 she transferred to the Caudron School at Le Crotoy.
- On June 15, 1911 she received her pilot licence, becoming the sixth woman in the world (fifth in France) to do so.
- For the remainder of the year she competed and participated in a number of exhibitions, including one in Pamplona, Spain, where she was commended for her achievements by Alphonso XIII.
- However, in 1912, her husband was killed in a car accident.
- She appeared in one more exhibition, in April 1912 at Juvisy-sur-Orge, and it appears that she then ceased flying.Driancourt died of illness in late 1914 at L'Haÿ-les-Roses.
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