General G. Ferrié (1868–1932)

Abstract

THIS great and singularly attractive man died so long ago as February 16, 1932, but we did not succeed in obtaining an obituary notice of him. Many of our readers who knew him or his work will therefore be interested to learn of a series of eulogies and accounts of his life (Bulletin de la Societe d'Encouragement pour Industrie Nationale, 133, Oct. 1934, pp. 533–564). They include a funeral oration broadcast from Paris on the day of his death by Lieut.-Col. P. Brenot; a discourse given at his funeral two days later by M. R. Bourgeois, president of the Paris Academy of Sciences; a lecture on March 10, 1932, to an association of Engineers' regiments, by Lieut.-Col. P. Brenot; discourses by General Perrier and M. Painleve (then Air Minister) at the inauguration of the plaques bearing the title of the newly-named Avenue du General-Ferrie, at the Champ du Mars, October 10, 1932; a discourse of November 15, 1933, by M. Emile Picard, at the inauguration of a monument to General Ferrie, near the radio-telegraphic station at the Champ du Mars; a discourse by M. Rene Mesny, November 17, 1933, at the Academy of the Marine; and discourses by MM. J. Paraf and de Valbreuze, at the inauguration of a memorial medallion at l'ficole superieure d'Electricite, Malakoff (Seine), where General Ferrie for many years gave and directed instruction in radio-telegraphy.