Marc Marie Edmond Armand Pourpe was a French aviation pioneer and stunt flyer.
13 Facts About Marc Pourpe
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Marc Pourpe's mother was Anne-Marie Chassaigne, later known as the famous courtesan Liane de Pougy, and his father a young naval officer, Armand Pourpe.
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Marc Pourpe made the first airmail flight in Egypt flying from Cairo to Khartoum.
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Marc Pourpe was born on 17 May 1887 in Lorient, France to the famous courtesan, Liane de Pougy, who was of Spanish and French descent.
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Marc Pourpe's father was Armand Pourpe, a young naval officer who later became a senior officer in the Suez Canal Company.
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Marc Pourpe later claimed in her memoirs that her new husband took her violently on their wedding night, an event which left her emotionally scarred.
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Marc Pourpe's husband found them in bed together and shot her.
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Young Marc Pourpe studied at Harrow in anticipation of attending Cambridge or Oxford.
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In 1912, while barnstorming in Calcutta in a Bleriot, Marc Pourpe met Raoul Lufbery, whom he later hired as his mechanic.
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Marc Pourpe took part in an early "Aviation Week" held at in Heliopolis, near Cairo from 2 January through 12 January 1914.
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When World War I broke out, Marc Pourpe joined the French Air Service as a bomber pilot, serving with Escadrille N23.
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Numbed by the very low temperature, Marc Pourpe lost control of his aircraft, as he exited a cloud, before "sideslipping" and came crashing to the ground.
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Marc Pourpe is buried in the cemetery of Carnel, Lorient.