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MERMOZ Jean
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200
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MERMOZ Jean
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
MERMOZ Jean
L.A.S. ‘Jean’, [Buenos Aires] 8 January [1930], to his ‘dear Mum’; 3 pages, in-8, on Via Aéropostale paper.
He is due to embark “on 24 January on the liner Lutetia”, and will be in Bordeaux around 8 February, and is looking forward to embracing his mother. ‘I’ll have very few days’ leave because I’ve been called upon to attempt the first commercial crossings of the South Atlantic whilst a raid aircraft is being prepared. In any case, I’m being replaced for seven months in Buenos Aires. And I’ll have three or four months’ leave once my expedition is over.” His fiancée Gilberte will return in April with her parents: “Naturally, the impending separation is not without its sadness for us. But one must pay the price for one’s happiness”…
Source: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936);
- Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955);
- Then passed down through the family
See original version (French)
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