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Jean Brouillet was born in 1924 and is 100 years old now.
Birthday: 1924
How Old - Age: 100
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Jean Brouillet - Biography
Jean-Claude Brouillet was born in the 1920`s in the tiny French village of Villeneuve-sur-Lot.He is 14 when WWII swipes over France and he joins the "Resistance" before moving to Africa to join the Free French Forces where he wants to become a pilot. When, after numerous adventures, he finally gets his pilot`s license in Alabama, the war is over. He moved to Gabon where he decided to build the country`s first airline. After three hard working years as a trucker, Jean-Claude finally has enough money to buy a plane. It is in England that he will find it. A vintage Tiger Moth biplane that had survived the First World WarWith this antique wooden plane, he flew all the way from England to Gabon. On the very night of his landing in Gabon, his plane was destroyed in a storm. Jean-Claude has nothing left, but there is no time to despair. His courage has earned him the respect of his potential customers: the rugged wood loggers. He his handed an envelope with enough money to buy a new plane so he can work for them and repay his debt. And so it all started... The Gabonese government then encouraged the young aviator with his first contract as an aerial courier for the country`s administration. Over the years, landing strips will appear in the jungle and new planes will be bought. A second Tiger Moth is built from the first plane`s wreckage and is soon joined by larger De Havilland Dragon biplanes. Years went by. The heroic biplanes have now been replaced with brand new glittering DC-3. And then, one day, Jean-Claude sells Transgabon, his company, and walks away from it all. He is 35 and already a millionaire. With his yacht, the magnificent African Queen, he will sail all over the world. He buys a home in the French Riviera and parties with Brigitte Bardot and the rest of the Mediterranean Jet Set. He will even find a sunken treasure in the Caribbean. Being in France he met and married Marina Vlady. They got a son, Vladimir. The unhappy marriage was followed by misfortunes in business. After failing trying to build an airline in Corsica, Jean-Claude lost most of his money. He went back home to Gabon in order to turn the country`s airline around upon the personal request of the Gabonese president. His fortune restored, he went to the Pacific Islands of French Polynesia. His new hotels in Tahiti were an overnight success and he rapidly drifted toward a new adventure: black pearl culture. To start his pearl culture, he bought an island 10 hours from Papeete by plane. On this paradise island he installed a village and created a small community where everybody lived in harmony and worked hard to produce the world`s most beautiful pearls. Jean-Claude Brouillet now lives in California. When he`s not skiing down the slopes of Mammoth Lake, he`s traveling the world, from his Jojoba plantations in Arizona to his ranch in Paraguay and his friends in Gabon and Tahiti.
