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[MERMOZ Jean]
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287
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[MERMOZ Jean]
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €700
Voluntary lot
Description
[MERMOZ Jean]
39 letters (L.A.S. or L.S.) or documents addressed to Jean MERMOZ, 1935–1936; numerous letterheads.
Invitations to attend events, meetings or conferences (Crédit Lyonnais Aero Club, officers’ associations and the Croix de Feu, Toulouse and Pyrenees Aero Club, Jacques Breguet’s Groupe X Aviation, French Committee for Aeronautical Propaganda, Les Assistantes du Devoir National, the Auvergne Aero Club, the Marquis de Créqui Montfort of the Académie des Sports, and the Aero Club do Brasil), applications for membership of associations (Les Ailes Mutilées, including its articles of association; Henri de Kerillis’s Centre de Propagande des Républicains Nationaux for the fight against socialism and communism), sponsorship of the Ligue des Jeunes de l’Aviation; invitations to meetings at the Ministry of the Air (P. Massenet of the AVIA, Centre for the Study and Application of Gliding)… Requests for articles: Roger Labric (from the weekly *L’Aéro*), General Madelin (for the magazine *La Belle France*)
Letters from friends and comrades: I.L. Blanchot (French Aeronautical League), Henri Chomel, Jean Dabry (16 October 1936, lamenting Mermoz’s indictment by the magistrates), P. de Lamaze (from the *Revue des Clubs Aéronautiques*, issue 4), Lemaître, Louis Loché (Director of Civil Aviation, speaking of Maryse Bastié), the widow of Maurice Noguès, etc. Telegram from Suzanne Deutsch de la Meurthe prior to the 100th South Atlantic crossing (19 July 1936).
Plus a translation of a Dutch article and an anonymous warning.
Provenance: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936);
- Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955);
- Passed down through the family
See original version (French)
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