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Gaston Gradis was a French businessman and explorer. He came from a wealthy family of Bordeaux shipowners. After serving as an artillery captain in World War I, he became the head of various transport
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Nieuport-Delage aircraft. A folding-wing version was taken on the first exploratory journey.
Gao on the Niger River
Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne was a general of artillery and a specialist in military engineering, one of the founders of modern French artillery and French military aviation, and the creator of the F
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…the Sahara from north to south by car. For this purpose, on 23 May 1923 he founded the Compagnie générale transsaharienne (CGT). The retired General Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, who had designed and built tanks during the war, was made president of the company. The purpose of the company was to "study, establish and exploit…
Concours de l'Aéro Cyble à Mourmelon, Le colonel Estienne
A World War I mobile personnel shield.
The Souain tank prototype crossing a trench on 9 December 1915. Colonel Estienne attended these decisive trials