Louise Faure-Favier


Louise Faure-Favier was a French writer and aviator. She is considered by some to be the first French woman to work as a professional journalist.
She was born Jeanne Lucie Augustine Claudia Faure-Favier in Firminy.
Faure-Favier travelled on the first civil aviation flight in France. She developed the first official guides in France for aviation tourism. With, she set a speed record for a flight between Paris and Dakar in 1919 and, in 1930, set a speed record for the return flight. 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.
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 about her friend Guillaume Apollinaire.