During the First World War (1914–1918), Suzanne Deutsch de la Meurthe was a volunteer nurse in
Biarritz where she cared for wounded soldiers from the front. One of her patients was Germain Testart from
Picardie. After the war, she visited him in the village of
Moÿ-de-l’Aisne which had been devastated during the fighting. She decided to rebuild the village for its inhabitants, restoring the water supply, constructing housing and providing sports facilities and a gymnasium. After completing work on the village itself in 1928, she built a textile factory providing work for the villagers. The car is now in the collection of the
Mullin Automotive Museum in
Oxnard,
California and was displayed at the
Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World in 2019–2020. In 1930 she bought a 1929 Hispano-Suiza K6 6.6L Inline 6-Cylinder car and raced it in that year's 1930
Rallye Paris – Saint-Raphaël Féminin. Suzanne's father had been an avid supporter of French aviation, both airships and planes. From 1900, he encouraged participation by launching various competitions from 1900 for both civil and military aircraft. Following in his footsteps, in 1931 she revived the
Coupe Deutsh de la Meurthe, this time with a view to improving the speed of planes which continued until 1936. She established and headed the Aéro-club de l'Aisne in 1921, and supported the Club Roland Garros. For these activities, she was decorated as an
Officier of the Legion of Honour in 1935. Suzanne Deutsch de la Meurthe died of a heart condition in Paris on 29 November 1937. == Commemoration ==