Jean-Gérard Fleury (24 November 1905 – 2 June 2002) was a French businessman, aviator, journalist and writer.

Biography

Coming from a northern farming family from France, Fleury graduated from the Institut d’Études Politiques and became a lawyer and journalist in Paris.''Une « dictature démocratique » : Getúlio Vargas, raconté par Jean-Gérard Fleury''
published on the site ''amnis.revues.org'', accessdate 12 January 2017. In 1931, he made a report on the airline

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- Santiago du Chili. Passionate about aviation and the Compagnie générale aéropostale, he met pilots like

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and

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. The latter will help him pass his pilot's license. He entered as head of the aeronautics section at '' Paris-Soir'' of which he will be a permanent correspondent in Brazil. Fleury began a career as a company director and worked, between 1945 and 1978, for various companies, Société Louis Bréguet and

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as correspondent for the daily ''

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''. He died 2 June 2002 in

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. In 1938 he was awarded the

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Lauréats
sur le site ''prixalbertlondres.com''. Accessdate 12 January 2017.

Works

*1933: ''Chemins du Ciel'', preface by

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, Lettre de Jean Mermoz, Sorlot éditeur *1938: ''Un Homme Libre chez les Soviets, ''Les Éditions de France *1939
''La Ligne (de Mermoz, Guillaumet, Saint-Exupéry et de leurs compagnons)''
Gallimard *1940: ''Getulio Vargas, président des États-Unis du Brésil'', Plon, Paris *1943: ''Sud Amérique'', Éditions de la Maison Française, New York

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Jean-Gérard Fleury
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on INA.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Fleury, Jeangerard People from Nord (French department) 1905 births 2002 deaths Sciences Po alumni French aviators 20th-century French journalists Albert Londres Prize recipients 20th-century French writers