La Môme Moineau (the kid sparrow), "the richest woman of the Côte d'Azur", former flower seller married to husband Mr. Benítez-Rexach, Puerto Rican ship building millionaire. With one of her husbands gifts, a Beech 18 (85’000’000 francs). Cannes Airport 1954.

With a joyful smile, La Môme Moineau stands in the doorway of her Beech 18 airplane at Cannes Airport in 1954. A former flower seller known as "the richest woman of the Côte d'Azur," she wears a dark, double-breasted overcoat and a peaked cap, holding a thin walking stick. The aircraft, with its polished, riveted fuselage and a small, stylized sparrow painted on the side, was a gift from her husband, the Puerto Rican shipbuilding millionaire Mr. Benítez-Rexach.

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