Title
Aerostatic experiment by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the marquis d’Arlandes on 21st november 1783
Caption
Le Chevalier de Lorimier, draftsman and Nicolas de Launay, Engraver
Aerostatic experiment by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the marquis d’Arlandes on 21st november 1783. View from the first aerial voyage above Paris from Benjamin Franklin's balcony in Passy
Framed etching (31 x 25 cm)
Muller-Quênot Collection
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On 21st November 1783 the balloon took off from the parc du Château, towards the Seine, passing in the proximity of Benjamin Franklin's private hotel in Passy and the duchess de Lamballe's residence in the Chaillot hillside. The balloon continued it's flight over the Seine, the Ecole Militaire, the hôtel des Invalides, the Saint-Sulpice Church, le Luxembourg, la Barrière d’Italie and corssing over la Bièvre, near the Croulebarbe water mill. The balloon rose to nearly nine hundred metres in altitude. The Parisians were in awe of the blue and gold balloon that seemed to glide across the sky leaving behind a trail of smoke, making this rare occasion even more unimaginable. After a flight of twenty-six minutes and having travelled a distance of around ten kilometres, the bold voyagers landed in clos Payen on the hillside of la Butte aux Cailles.
Date
18th century
Credit line
Photo12/Association Muller Quenot Rosheim
Reference
MQR10A00_176
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Rights managed
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