Op. 324 BACH, BALLET, BALLOONS (June 22, 2019)
I. Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810) /
Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier (1745-1799)
Annonay, June 4, 1783
[Unoccupied / First Unmanned Hot Air Balloon]
Paris, Montreuil, Folie Titon, September 11, 1783
[Unoccupied / First Unmanned Hot Air Balloon in Paris]
Versailles, September 19, 1783
Montauciel the Sheep / Duck / Rooster
[Louis XVI (1754-1793) / Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) -
Provide a criminal - Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier -
It would be an honor]
Paris, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, October 15, 1783
Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier /
Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier [Tethered]
Paris, Bois de Boulogne, Chateau Muette -
Butte aux Cailles, November 21, 1783
Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier /
Francois Laurent d'Arlandes (1742-1809) [Untethered]
[Lands between windmills,
Pilatre de Rozier takes off coat to stop fire]
[Champagne tradition begun, Louis XVI and
Benjamin Franklin in attendance]
II. Jacques Charles (1746-1823) / Anne-Jean Robert (1758-1820) /
Nicolas-Louis Robert (1760-1820)
Paris, Champs de Mars [later Eiffel Tower site] -
Paris, Gonesse, August 27, 1783
[Unoccupied - Hydrogen]
[Benjamin Franklin in attendance]
[Balloon destroyed upon landing by terrified peasants]
Paris, Tuilleries Palace [later Garden] - Nesles-la-Vallee -
Tours du Lay, December 1, 1783
[Franklin and Joseph Montgolfier in attendance,
latter honored w/ ceremonial weather function]
Jacques Charles / Nicolas-Louis Robert
[Charles w/o Robert re-ascends rapidly to 9000 ft,
sees a second sunset, never flies again]
III. Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier (1754-1785)
Boulogne-sur-Mer - Wimereux, June 15, 1785
Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier / Pierre Romain
[First attempt English Channel from France,
Balloon deflates 1,5000 feet up, both killed]
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