Marie-Louise Driancourt

Marie-Louise Driancourt (née Martin, 1887–1914) was a pioneering French pilot. She was the sixth woman in the world to receive a pilot licence.

Personal life Marie-Louise Driancourt was born in Lyon, France in 1887, and later moved to Paris where she married and had three children. Her husband, an aviation enthusiast himself, encouraged her to take up flying, and she began flying lessons in 1910 at the Blériot school near Chartres.

Driancourt died of illness in late 1914 at L'Haÿ-les-Roses.