"Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air" by Henry Bordeaux (translated by Louise Morgan Sill). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Henry Bordeaux. Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air
Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PROLOGUE
CANTO I
CHILDHOOD. I. THE GUYNEMERS
II. HOME AND COLLEGE
THE DEPARTURE
CANTO II
LAUNCHED INTO SPACE. I. THE FIRST VICTORY
II. FROM THE AISNE TO VERDUN
III. "LA TERRE A VU JADIS ERRER DES PALADINS. … "[19]
IV. ON THE SOMME (JUNE, 1916, TO FEBRUARY, 1917)
CANTO III
AT THE ZENITH. I. ON THE 25TH OF MAY, 1917
II. A VISIT TO GUYNEMER
III. GUYNEMER IN CAMP
IV. GUYNEMER IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSE
V. THE MAGIC MACHINE
CANTO IV
THE ASCENSION. I. THE BATTLE OF FLANDERS
II. OMENS
III. THE LAST FLIGHT
IV. THE VIGIL
V. THE LEGEND
VI. IN THE PANTHÉON
ENVOI
APPENDIX
APPENDIX
GENEALOGY OF GEORGES GUYNEMER
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Henry Bordeaux
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer was born in Paris one Christmas Eve, December 24, 1894. He saw then, and always, the faces of three women, his mother and his two elder sisters, standing guard over his happiness. His father, an officer (Junior Class '80, Saint-Cyr), had resigned in 1890. An ardent scholar, he became a member of the Historical Society of Compiègne, and while examining the charters of the Cartulaire de royallieu, or writing a monograph on the Seigneurie d'Offémont, he verified family documents of the genealogy of his family. Above all, it was he in reality who educated his son.
Guynemer is a very old French name. In the Chanson de Roland one Guinemer, uncle of Ganelon, helped Roland to mount at his departure. A Guinemer appears in Gaydon (the knight of the jay), which describes the sorrowful return of Charlemagne to Aix-la-Chapelle after the drama of Roncevaux; and a Guillemer figures in Fier-à-Bras, in which Charlemagne and the twelve peers conquer Spain. This Guillemer l'Escot is made prisoner along with Oliver, Bérart de Montdidier, Auberi de Bourgoyne, and Geoffroy l'Angevin.
