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Street named after Elena Caragiani (Bucharest, Romania)

    Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu (b. Tecuci, Romania, 1887 – d. 1929, Bucharest, Romania) was the first woman aviator in Romania, she lived in France where she married a French man and obtained a flying diploma from the Aeroclub de France. In France she became a reporter for a major French daily newspaper and traveled to the Caribbean, Mexico and South America, before becoming a war correspondent for the Press Trust of Mexico.  After the war she settled in Paris with her husband.

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    Address: Strada Elena Caragiani, Bucuresti 014212, Romania