Alain Gerbault

Alain Jacques Georges Marie Gerbault was a French aviator and tennis champion, who made a circumnavigation of the world as a singlehanded sailor. He eventually settled in the islands of south Pacific Ocean, where he wrote several books about the islanders way of life. As a tennis player he was ranked the fifth on the French rankings in 1923.

Alain Gerbault was born on November 17, 1893 in Laval, to an uppermiddleclass family. He spent much of his youth in Dinard, near the ancient port of St. Malo he spent his summers playing tennis and football, as well as hunting and fishing. At college he studied civil engineering. He had a brother with whom they owned a lime factory in Laval.

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