<p>"À l'honneur de ceux qui tentèrent et de celui qui accomplit". (<i>Translation</i>: In honor of those who tried, and the one who succeeded.)
Monument erected in honnor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nungesser" class="extiw" title="en:Charles Nungesser">en:Charles Nungesser</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Coli" class="extiw" title="en:François Coli">en:François Coli</a> &amp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" class="extiw" title="en:Charles Lindbergh">en:Charles Lindbergh</a>.
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Statue at the entrance to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%93Le_Bourget_Airport" class="extiw" title="en:Paris–Le Bourget Airport">Le Bourget Airport near Paris</a>, honoring Charles Nungesser and François Coli, who attempted to fly across the Atlantic aboard <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Bird" class="extiw" title="w:The White Bird">The White Bird</a></i> (<i>L'Oiseau Blanc</i>), and disappeared without a trace, and Charles Lindbergh who made successfully the same feat two weeks later.
Statue: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Gustave_Michel" class="extiw" title="w:en:Gustave Michel">Gustave Michel</a> (1851—1924)<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010360248:mpeg21:pdf">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER_TITLE&amp;FIELD_98=AUTP&amp;VALUE_98=%20Philippe&amp;GRP=325&amp;SPEC=3&amp;SYN=1&amp;IMLY=&amp;MAX1=1&amp;MAX2=1&amp;MAX3=50&amp;REQ=((Philippe)%20%3AAUTP%20)&amp;DOM=Tous&amp;USRNAME=nobody&amp;USRPWD=4%24%2534P">[2]</a><br>Photo: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/9308488@N05">abac077</a>
Statue: 1913-1924; inaugurated at Le Bourget on May 8, 1928.<br>Photo: 2007-10-07 11:06:07
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