GEORGES GUYNEMER

Published on the Fund
given to the Yale University Press in memory of
ENSIGN CURTIS SEAMAN READ, U.S.N.R.F.
of the Class of 1918, Yale College, killed in the
aviation service in France, February, 1918

Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Air

HENRY BORDEAUX

GEORGES

GUYNEMER

KNIGHT OF THE AIR

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
By LOUISE MORGAN SILL

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK: 280 MADISON AVENUE

MDCCCCXVIII

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Prologue

CANTO I: CHILDHOOD

• The Guynemers
• Home and College
• The Departure

CANTO II: LAUNCHED INTO SPACE

• The First Victory
• From the Aisne to Verdun
• "La Terre a vu jadis errer des Paladins"
• On the Somme (June, 1916, to February, 1917)

CANTO III: AT THE ZENITH

• On the 25th of May, 1917
• A Visit to Guynemer
• Guynemer in Camp
• Guynemer at Home
• The Magic Machine

CANTO IV: THE ASCENSION

• The Battle of Flanders
• Omens
• The Last Flight
• The Vigil
• The Legend
• In the Panthéon

Envoi

Appendix: Genealogy of Georges Guynemer

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Air
(From a wood block in three colors by Rudolph Ruzicka.)
The First Flight in a Blériot
In the Air
Combat
"Going West"
(From charcoal drawings by W.A. Dwiggins.)

INTRODUCTION

June 27th, 1918.

My dear M. Bordeaux:

I count the American people fortunate in reading any book of