Helle nice biography of williams

15/12/1900 - 1/10/1984

Record updated 23-May-17

A postmasters daughter who moved to Paris and became a famous dancer. She became involved in motor sport and became a very competent Bugatti driver. Denounced as a Gestapo agent by Louis Chiron after the Second World War she died in abject poverty in Nice in 1984.

Born Mariette Hélène Delangle in Aunay-sous-Auneau, Eure-et-Loir, she was the daughter of Alexandrine Bouillie and her husband Léon Delangle. Her father worked as the local postman in their small village, a place 47 miles southwest from the center of the city of Paris, where Delangle headed at the age of sixteen. Once in Paris, she found work in some of the city's music halls and within a few years became a very successful dancer under the stage name Hélène Nice which eventually became Hellé Nice. She built a solid reputation as a solo act but in 1926 decided to partner with Robert Lisset to perform at cabarets around Europe. Her income from dancing as w

Legends of Motorsports: Hellé Nice - Hagerty Media

Mariette Hélène Delangle (1900–1984), better known by her stage name Hellé Nice, was a French dancer and motor racing driver.

Hellé Nice - Wikipedia

Racing driver Helle Nice was one of the most famous women in the world in the 1930s - but it's a fame that seems to have got lost over the decades.

In pursuit of the Queen of Speed - Los Angeles Times

The diminutive Hellé- Nice was probably the top female driver of the era.

Hellé Nice: the socialite model turned trailblazing racer

Hellé Nice loved the thrill of driving fast cars and as such she jumped at the opportunity to compete in a racing event at the annual fair organized by fellow performers from the Paris entertainment world.

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Being one of the pioneers of female motor racing, Hellé Nice set a new world land speed record for women driving an Omega-Six in 1929.

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Helle Nice – The Bugatti Queen – Gearstick & Clutchbag

She led a breathless early life as a socialite, dancer, model and downhill skier, then began a groundbreaking racing adventure in the 1920s and ’30s, before suggestions of Nazi collusion by Louis Chiron led to her dying alone and impoverished in 1984.

Legendary Ladies Of Motorsport: Hellé Nice - Petrolicious

Hellé was born Mariette Hélène Delangle in December, 1900, in a small village almost 50 miles South West of Paris.