RENE CHAMBRE - Lot 69

RENE CHAMBRE History of Aviation Edition Flammarion 1949, bound in dust jacket, format 28.5x22.5 cm, 396 pages with ex-libris "Général Victor Denain" ; Illustrated with 800 heliogravures and 12 separate color plates signed in gray pencil (at the end of the book). Accompanied by a handsome dedication by the author to General Victor Denain, Minister of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the French Air Force. The book comes in a special 30x24 cm tricolor slipcase, to which is attached a Flammarion document with a handwritten note "Personnel Général Denain". - René Chambe was a pioneer of fighter aviation in the Great War. He is famous for his writings on aviation (including a book on Georges Guynemer). In the 1930s, he set up the Service Historique de l'Armée de l'Air (SHAA), then became Director of the Ecole de l'Air (later the Ecole de l'Air et de l'Espace). The Second World War brought him to work alongside General Giraud, then Generals A. Juin and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.