DIDIER DAURAT (1891-1969) Autographed photograph of Didier Daurat signed and dedicated 'To Claude Rispaud'

Be assured of my grateful memory and of the joy I feel in having walked with you on our sacred path: 'La Ligne' I have felt so well your emotion, your attachment to the moral enrichment of man throughout our pilgrimage, that today, I am happy to have ... discovered a new friend in your person/ Paris 10/10/64' (in the margin) gelatin silver print 35 x 35 cm circa, 40 x 35 cm total Didier Daurat was a legendary figure of l'Aéropostale, the ‘boss’, as he was respectfully called by the heroes of the France-South America route, like Mermoz, Vachet, Antoine, Dubourdieu, Guillaumet, Reine, among the most famous aviators of the time, not forgetting Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who drew inspiration from him for the main character of his novel Vol de Nuit (1931).