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D'Azur Et De Sable (French, Paperback)
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Marcel Migeo is a big name in the heroic epoch of French aviation,
even though he is not as famous as Mermoz, Guillaumet or
Saint-Exupery - he knew all three of them. Refusing a path all
mapped-out as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance, he chose
aviation because of his taste for travel and adventure. In January
1923, he left for Syria, sent there as a fighter pilot in the 53rd
Escadrille of the Levant, based at Deir-ez-zor. On a Breguet XIV he
took part in peace keeping operations in Syria, earning himself the
Croix de Guerre and the Medaille du Levant and bar. Each day he
wrote down the important events of his daily life in his moleskin
notebook: his flying missions, his relations with the local
population, his discovery of Syrian towns and countryside. These
notes gave rise to a manuscript, unpublished until today. He became
an insurance broker in his native city, Reims. Marcel Migeo wrote
ten or so books most of which were devoted to flying. We owe him
accounts of the war, like Batailles dans le ciel (Grand Prix
Litteraire de l'Aero-Club de France) and biographies of
Saint-Exupery, Henri Guillaumet, Maryse Bastie and Dider Daurat.
Almost a hundred years later, his writings on Syria have a
pertinent and astonishingly contemporary flavour since the country
is being torn apart by a six-year-old civil war which has taken on
an international dimension. The journalist and writer, Patrick
Poivre d'Arvor, himself from Reims, has written the preface to this
book as a tribute to the memory of Marcel Migeo whom he knew and
whose tales of youth in turn have something to do with developing
his own interest in that heroic period of aviation.
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