Marie Marvingt
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Marie Félicie Élisabeth Marvingt was a French athlete, mountaineer, aviator, and journalist. She was the first woman to climb many of the peaks in the French and Swiss Alps. Marvingt was a record-brea
Marvingt in her Deperdussin aeroplane, 1912
Émile Friant's drawing of Marie Marvingt and her proposed air ambulance, 1914
Aurillac
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Aurillac is the prefecture of the Cantal department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France.
Marie Marvingt
…the façade of the house where she lived at 8 Place de la Carrière, Nancy. Marie Félicie Élisabeth Marvingt was born at 6:30 p.m on 20 February 1875, in Aurillac, the prefecture of the French department of Cantal. Her father was Félix Constant Marvingt, a senior postmaster, and her mother was Élisabeth Brusquin…
The Hôtel de Ville
Aerial view of Aurillac
Houses along the Jordanne
The Station at Aurillac in 1898