Live to Fly - Auriol`s auto-biography

Jacqueline Auriol (November 5, 1917 ? February 11, 2000) was a French aviatrix who set several world speed records.

Biography

Born as Jacqueline Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Douet in Challans, Vendée, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, she graduated from the University of Nantes then she studied art at the École du Louvre in Paris.

In 1938, she married Paul Auriol, son of Vincent Auriol who later became President of France. During World War II, Jacqueline Auriol, worked against the German occupation of France by helping the French Resistance.

She earned a military pilot license in 1950 then qualified as one of the first female test pilots. She was among the first women to break the sound barrier and set five world speed records.

Her life story was told in her 1970 autobiography I Live to Fly published in the French and English languages.

Honours

• She was awarded four Harmon Trophies in 1951, 1952, 1955 and 1956.
• She was made Grand officier (Grand officer) of the Légion d'honneur.
• She was made Grand'croix (Grand cross) of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1997.^[1]

• Honored as an Eagle in 1992.^[2]

Gathering of Eagles Program

Sources

• I Live to Fly - Jacqueline Auriol. (1970) E.P. Dutton & Co.: New York; ISBN 0-525-13076-4

References

External links

• Biography on the Air University website
• Jacqueline Auriol's obituary in the ''La Dépêche'' newspaper

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