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 who became one of the wealthiest women on the Côte d'Azur, poses in a pilot's uniform at Cannes Airport in 1954. She is seated at the wheel of her 1948 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, a Drophead Coupé by Franay gifted to her by her husband, the shipping millionaire Félix Benítez-Rexach. In the background, its wing extending over the car’s bonnet, is her personal aircraft, its polished fuselage emblazoned with the name "MOINEAU FLIER."

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Airplanes, Cars, Hats

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