Louise Faure-Favier
Louise Faure-Favier | |
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![]() Louise Faure-Favier in 1922. | |
Born | Jeanne Lucie Augustine Claudia Faure-Favier 12 December 1870 Firminy, France |
Died | 5 March 1961 | (aged 90)
Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist and aviator |
Known for | Setting aviation speed records, being the first French woman professional journalist |
Louise Faure-Favier (12 December 1870 – 5 March 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 also wrote the first French novel about civil aviation.
Biography
She was born Jeanne Lucie Augustine Claudia Faure-Favier in Firminy, 12 December 1870.[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. In 1930, it set a speed record for the round trip flight between Paris and Baghdad.[3] 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]
She was also a pioneer in journalism, writing columns particularly in the field of aeronautics, such as the one on Le Bourget airport.[4] In Le Matin, she is a committed feminist as she wrote a column entitled "La vie féminine".[5] She collaborates successively or simultaneously with numerous titles such as: le Matin; le Figaro; Paris-Midi; le Temps; L'Œuvre; le Journal; L'Éclair; la Revue Bleue; le Mercure de France; L'Aérophile; les Ailes; la Revue Palladéenne and La Nef.[6]
She elaborated the first official guides in France for air tourism, illustrated in part by her own aerial photographs[7] in the series of Guides de voyages aériens (Paris-Tunis, Paris-Lausanne, Paris-London).
Autor
Louise Faure-Favier is an author of various genres. She was a poet in Visages de la Seine, illustrated by Marie Laurencin, and Notre île Saint-Louis, where she lived at 45, quai de Bourdon. 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 entitled Souvenirs about her friend Guillaume Apollinaire.[8][2]
Posterity
Louise Faure-Favier was one of four women named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1925 for Blanche et Noir. She received a prize from the Académie Française in 1942.
François Sureau of the Académie Française underlined the injustice of Louise Faure-Favier's oblivion in French culture and literature.[9]
Bibliography
- Six contes et deux rêves. Paris, E. Figuière, 1918, 216 p.
- Ces choses qui seront vieilles. Paris, la Renaissance du livre, 1919, 254 p.
- Guides des voyages aériens. Paris-Londres. Paris, (impr. C. Bernard), 1921 , 61 p.
- Guides des voyages aériens. Paris-Lausanne. Paris, (impr. C. Bernard), 1922 , 66 p.
- Les Chevaliers de l'air. roman, Paris, la Renaissance du livre, 1922, 276 p.
- Blanche et Noir. roman, Paris, J. Ferenczi et fils, 1928, 229 p.
- Guides des voyages aériens. Paris-Tunis, Paris-Lyon-Marseille-Ajaccio-Tunis, Tunis-Bône et Lyon-Genève. Paris, (impr. C. Bernard) , 1930, 132 p.
- Souvenirs sur Guillaume Apollinaire. Paris, P. Grasset , 1945, 243 p. dessinatrice : Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)
- Notre île Saint-Louis. Paris, Montjoie, 1946, 63 p.
- Visages de la Seine. Paris, Points et contrepoints, 1951, 71 p.
References
- ^ a b c "Louise Faure-Favier (1870-1961)" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- ^ a b c Boittin, Jennifer Anne (2010). Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris. pp. 69–74. ISBN 978-0803225459.
- ^ "Valeurs actuelles", Wikipédia (in French), 2023-02-28, retrieved 2023-03-06
- ^ "Louise Faure-Favier à tire d'aile | Les Soirées de Paris" (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-06.
- ^ "Valeurs actuelles", Wikipédia (in French), 2023-02-28, retrieved 2023-03-06
- ^ "Accueil". www.medias19.org (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-06.
- ^ "Louise Faure-Favier à tire d'aile | Les Soirées de Paris" (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-06.
- ^ Berliner, Brett A (2002). Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-age France. pp. 61–62. ISBN 1558493565.
- ^ Farine, Manou (2017-11-05). "Poésie et ainsi de suite : podcast et émission en replay". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-06.