École de lAir Lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr
Where was Caroline Aigle educated between Jan 1997 and Dec 1997?
Caroline Aigle Commandant Caroline Aigle ( ) ( 12 September 1974 – 21 August 2007 ) was a French aviator who achieved a historical first when , at the age of 25 , she became the first woman fighter pilot in the French Air Force . Her promising military career was cut short by death from cancer seven years later . She was posthumously awarded the Médaille de lAéronautique ( Aeronautics Medal ) . Background . Born in Montauban , Aigle spent her early years in Africa , where her father served as a military physician . After reaching her fourteenth birthday , she matriculated at the Lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr ( Saint-Cyr Military High School ) , remaining for the three-year period from the second term until graduation . She subsequently proceeded to Prytanée Militaire , an advanced military high school , and then to the military academy wing of the prestigious École Polytechnique , Frances foremost school of engineering . During her first year ( 1994–95 ) , she fulfilled the requirements of her military duty while stationed with the 13th Battalion of the elite mountain infantry , the Chasseurs Alpins . She served her final year before graduation from the Polytechnique ( 1996–97 ) in the École de lAir , the French Air Forces officer candidate school . Career . After graduating from the Polytechnique , Aigle chose to join the French Air Force . On 28 May 1999 , she became the first woman to receive the Air Forces coveted fighter pilot wings . She was assigned to the Mirage 2000-5 in the Côte-dOr in 2000 , and promoted to the rank of Commandant ( roughly equivalent to Major ) in 2005 . Among the top candidates , she was also on the verge of being selected as an astronaut for the European Space Agency . By the time of her sudden death three weeks before her 33rd birthday ( the cancer , a melanoma , had been diagnosed only a month earlier ) , she had accumulated a total of 1600 hours of flight time . Aigle was a keen athlete and represented the Air Force in inter-service sports competitions . She was the 1997 French military champion in triathlon , followed by the 1997 triathlon world championship in military team competition . Still competing in 1999 , she and her team won the triathlon world military vice-championship . She was also a skydiver and free-fall parachutist . Death . Aigle was pregnant when she was first diagnosed with rapidly progressing cancer , and refused to undergo an abortion despite the increased difficulty in cancer treatment options . Her son Gabriel was delivered by caesarean section , five-and-a half months into term , fifteen days before her death on 21 August 2007 . She and her husband already had one other child . On 2 October 2007 , President Sarkozy posthumously awarded her the Médaille de lAéronautique ( Aeronautics Medal ) . Personal life . Aigle was married to Christophe Douky Deketelaere ( born 27 September 1964 ) , a former Air Force fighter pilot and deputy leader of the Breitling Jet Team . They had two sons , Marc and Gabriel .