La Môme Moineau (the kid sparrow), "the richest woman of the Côte d'Azur", former flower seller, married to Mr. Benítez-Rexach, Puerto Rican ship building millionaire. On right the pilot. With one of her husbands gifts, a 1948 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, #LWAB63, 1950 Drophead Coupé Franay. Cannes Airport 1954.

At Cannes Airport in 1954, La Môme Moineau, a former flower seller known as “the richest woman of the Côte d'Azur,” smiles from the driver’s seat of her Rolls-Royce. The car, a 1948 Silver Wraith with a Drophead Coupé body by Franay, was a gift from her husband, millionaire Félix Benítez Rexach. Her pilot holds the door open as a twin-engine “Super 18” aircraft stands on the tarmac behind them.

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