The head office of the company was located 79 avenue Marceau in Paris.

Facsimile signature of Bouilloux-Lafont.

In 1918, Pierre-Georges Latécoère (1871-1944) imagined an airline connecting France to Senegal through Spain and Morocco. He then founded Compagnie Générale d'Entreprises Aéronautiques, which created and operated the lines from Toulouse.

It is at Latécoère that Mermoz, Saint-Exupéry and Guillaumet will make their first flights.

Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont, mayor of Étampes and general councilor of Seine-et-Oise, created the Compagnie Générale Aéropostale in 1927, better known as “Aéropostale” by buying 93% of CGEA (Compagnie Générale d'Entreprises Aeronautics) of Pierre Georges Latécoère who for lack of financial means and political support, gives up his project to connect France to Argentina.

But Aéropostale went into liquidation in 1931, partly because of the world crisis of 1929, but also because of the refusal of French policy to help Aéropostale.

In 1933, the government imposed a regrouping on French aviation companies. The four largest, Air Orient, Air Union, CIDNA and SGTA-Farman form the SCELA which takes the name of Air France and buys the assets of Compagnie Générale Aéropostale. Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont died ruined in February 1944 in Rio de Janeiro.