Created by famed iron-smith/sculptor Raymond Subes the majestic lights on the Pont du Carrousel tell an amazing, if sad, tale (And .....there's a Brooklyn angle)
In the book I am writing about my great-aunt Marie, based on her diaries from 1930-1941, there is a story of Marie and her mother returning to Long Island from NYC via Brooklyn and passing a big celebration of two French pilots. My explanation of Marie's diary entry on Sept 2, 1930:
...two French aviators landed that day at Curtiss Field in Valley Stream after making the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight by plane from Paris to New York in 37 hours. Marie and her mother saw the crowds and celebration on their way home, though Marie got the name of the navigator wrong, calling him Delonte. It was actually Maurice Bellonte, and the pilot was Dieudonne Coste, who had the year before broken long-distance flying records by covering almost 5,000 miles from Paris to Quiqihar, China, and another flight later from Paris to Hanoi.
In the book I am writing about my great-aunt Marie, based on her diaries from 1930-1941, there is a story of Marie and her mother returning to Long Island from NYC via Brooklyn and passing a big celebration of two French pilots. My explanation of Marie's diary entry on Sept 2, 1930:
...two French aviators landed that day at Curtiss Field in Valley Stream after making the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight by plane from Paris to New York in 37 hours. Marie and her mother saw the crowds and celebration on their way home, though Marie got the name of the navigator wrong, calling him Delonte. It was actually Maurice Bellonte, and the pilot was Dieudonne Coste, who had the year before broken long-distance flying records by covering almost 5,000 miles from Paris to Quiqihar, China, and another flight later from Paris to Hanoi.
Wow...book sounds great! Love the story of the pilots. Very interesting!
I believe that those lamps are less than 12 meters high. 12 meters is roughly 4 storeys high… 22 meters would be about 7 storeys high!