[Cenotaph]. World War I Soldier. Aviator. He was the son of Albert Rivers Genêt and Martha Rodman Fox. The great-great grandson of Edmond Charles Genêt, the French Republic's ambassador to the fledgling United States, he was a member of the French Foreign Legion from 1914 to 1916. In 1916 he became a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. The Escadrille consisted of American aviators who came to France's aid in World War I before the United States officially entered the war in 1917. His diaries were edited and published as An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genêt, Lafayette Escadrille. Genêt died in one of the Escadrille's sorties against the Germans in World War I. He was the first American flier to die after the United States declared war against Germany. His body rests with those of the other members of the Escarille at the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial and Crypt just outside Paris.
[Cenotaph]. World War I Soldier. Aviator. He was the son of Albert Rivers Genêt and Martha Rodman Fox. The great-great grandson of Edmond Charles Genêt, the French Republic's ambassador to the fledgling United States, he was a member of the French Foreign Legion from 1914 to 1916. In 1916 he became a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. The Escadrille consisted of American aviators who came to France's aid in World War I before the United States officially entered the war in 1917. His diaries were edited and published as An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genêt, Lafayette Escadrille. Genêt died in one of the Escadrille's sorties against the Germans in World War I. He was the first American flier to die after the United States declared war against Germany. His body rests with those of the other members of the Escarille at the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial and Crypt just outside Paris.
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