Maurice ROSTAND (1891-1968). Lot n° 6

Autograph poem signed, To Marise Bastié; 1 page in-4° on yellow paper. Sonnet to the glory of the aviatrix Maryse BASTIÉ (1898-1952), who died on July 6, 1952 in flight, during an airshow at Lyon-Bron airport. "When one is Guynemer, Mermoz, or you, Marise, When one has the horizon as an essential dream, One can fall to earth once by surprise, But one cannot die anywhere else but in the sky!"...