Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry

French engineer and air force officer.

Born October 19th, 1927 in Lunéville.

Died March 11th, 1963 at 35 years old in Fort d'Ivry (ballistic trauma). [ref]

Occupations
aerospace engineer, military engineer
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel