Victor Denain

[1] He was behind the creation of the Salon-de-Provence Air School and the general development of military aviation.

[2] In 1915, he transferred to the French Air Force where he commanded the aircraft of the Allied armies on the Eastern Front (1916–1918).

Denain and Cot dealt with the Armee de l'Air's technological issues.

[4] Denain developed a strategic role for the Air Force with plans in 1933 for equipping it with 1,000 new planes.

[7] By August 1936, under the Blum government,[8] General Denain, had become High Commissioner of French Morocco.