Jean-Gérard Fleury

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

Biography

Coming from a northern farmer family from France, Fleury graduated from the Institut d’Études Politiques and became a lawyer and journalist in Paris. In 1931, he made a report on the airline Toulouse-Santiago du Chili. Passionate about aviation and the Compagnie générale aéropostale, he met pilots like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Marcel Reine [fr], Henri Guillaumet and Jean Mermoz. 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 Sud-Aviation as correspondent for the daily France-Soir'. He died 2 June 2002 in Rio de Janeiro. In 1938 he was awarded the Albert Londres Prize

Works

• 1933: Chemins du Ciel, preface by Joseph Kessel, 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