La Môme Moineau (the kid sparrow), "the richest woman of the Côte d'Azur", former flower seller, married to Mr. Benítez-Rexach, Dominican 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. - Photo by Edward Quinn

La Môme Moineau (the kid sparrow), "the richest woman of the Côte d'Azur", former flower seller, married to Mr. Benítez-Rexach, Dominican 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.

La Môme Moineau, a former flower seller known as "the richest woman of the Côte d'Azur," smiles in a captain's uniform from the driver's seat of her Rolls-Royce. The car, a 1948 Silver Wraith Drophead Coupé by Franay, was a gift from her husband, Dominican shipbuilding millionaire Félix Benítez-Rexach. Parked on the grassy airfield behind her is her private twin-engine plane, the "Moineau Flier." Cannes Airport, 1954.


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