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racing demon; The whirlwind adventures of a woman who took the French tracks by storm.
Byline: Hamish Bowles
At a time when Formula One racing is widely recognized as a crucible of chauvinism, Miranda Seymour's Bugatti Queen (Random House) offers a salutary reminder of the giddy days when the sport had a place for daredevil women-at the wheel.
Seymour's gushing tome charts the flamboyant rise and ignominious fall of the all-
but-forgotten Helle Nice (nee Helene Delangle)-celebrated in the Jazz Age as the fastest woman in the world. Born to the local postmaster of a dreary French provincial village, the adventurous Nice, a wide-eyed van Dongen beauty, escaped as a teenager for the excitements of Paris, then experiencing a liberating cultural revolution after the privations of World War I. Nice initially made a living modeling for racy poses plastiques postcards and later achieved some fame as a dancer at the Casino de Paris, where her costumes were barely more respectable. An injury ...
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