My Town

Julie Carugo

Levallois Perret, Paris suburb

This is the monument my town raised, to the memory of the most moving local hero. Maryse Hilsz gave up a normal woman's life to get an aviator license in 1930. She flew to Saigon, to Atananarive, and to Japan in years when this was unheard of. Air heorin during the war, for general De Gaulle, she died flying a military plane in 1946.


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