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Description: Les ballons sortis pendant le Siège de Paris, 1870-1871. Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, keyed to a map of their descents. Several vignettes show balloons, including le Richard Wallace at battle sites. Illustrations at bottom depict “Mort de Prince et LaCaze” (crash of Le Jaquart at sea); “Agrandissement des dépèches microscopiques exécutées à Tours et à Bordeaux par M. Dagron et ses collègues” (lecture by photographer Dagron); and “Descente au Mont-Lid (Norvège)“ (“La ville d’Orléans” in mountains).
Title: Les ballons sortis pendant le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871
Credit: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g10775. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
Author: M.G. Mangin, Aéronaute
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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