Thérèse Peltier

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Peltier in a Delagrange aircraft on September 17, 1908 at Issy-les-Moulineaux airfield
Peltier with Léon Delagrange on July 8, 1908 in Turin

Thérèse Peltier (born September 26, 1873 in Orléans , France , † February 18, 1926 in Paris , France) was a French sculptor . However, she was best known as the first woman to fly on an airplane.

Life

Peltier was the daughter of a distiller and Marie-Camille Cabilleau. On December 18, 1893, she married the naval doctor Alfred Peltier in Orleans, with whom she soon moved to Paris. Here she took lessons in sculpture at the Académie Vulpian and in the studio of Charles Vital-Cornu . Between 1900 and 1911 she exhibited her work in nine salons in Paris. In 1907 she received the Grand Prix of the Union des femmes et peintres sculpteurs .

On July 8, 1908, she flew as a passenger of her long-time friend Léon Delagrange in Turin in a Voisin aircraft to an altitude of 656 feet (197 m). She took flying lessons at Delagrange and did a few solo flights. When Delagrange had a fatal accident in a crash near Bordeaux on January 4, 1910, she gave up her flight ambitions.

Her work as a sculptor included a bust of Léon Delagrange.

In honor of Peltier , the rue Thérèse Peltier in the French municipalities of Marcheprime and Meyzieu , the Allée Thérèse Peltier in Niort and the Impasse Thérèse Peltier in Bouguenais .

Web links

Commons : Thérèse Peltier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The literature is divided on this statement. Henri Farman is said to have flown with the Belgian P. Van Pottelsberghe in Ghent as early as May 1908. → Thérèse Peltier. The First Woman Pilot. In: fly.historicwings.com.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Leonard C. Bruno: On the Move. A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, Northwestern University 1993. ISBN 0-81038-396-9 , p. 169.
  2. ↑ M. Baffet: Deux sculpteurs orléanais. Léon Delagrange et Thérèse Peltier pionniers de l'aviation In: Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans from 1984. Volume 49, p. 25.
  3. ↑ Nos Aviateurs à i'Étranger - Léon Delagrange en Italie . In: i'Aérophile . July 1908, ISSN 0994-8929 , p.   271 ( Gallica [accessed April 28, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Female Aerospace Pioneers , May 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ Thérèse Peltier . In: earlyaviators.com.
  6. ^ Thérèse Peltier (1873-1926), sculpteur et aviateur. Buste de Léon Delagrange. In: ventes-domaniales.fr.
  7. ↑ Google Maps
personal data
SURNAME Peltier, Thérèse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptress and aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Orléans , France
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1926
Place of death Paris , France