Jacqueline Auriol
1917 – 2000
French

Aviator. She broke the woman's record for speed in 1955 by flying 715 mph and published I Live to Fly in 1970.

Contemporaries
1909–1943Simone Weil
1881–1955Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1847–1922Georges Sorel
1871–1922Marcel Proust
1915–1968Thomas Merton
1882–1973Jacques Maritain
1859–1947Pierre Janet
1869–1951André Gide
1910–1986Jean Genet
1862–1921Georges Feydeau
1859–1941Henri Bergson