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L’aérostat “Le Géant” de Nadar   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Molynk, A.
Title
L’aérostat “Le Géant” de Nadar
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English: "The Giant", Balloon flown by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar)

Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of the hot air balloon Le Géant (The Giant) flown by French photographer and journalist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910). A proponent of manned flight, Tournachon (better known by the pseudonym "Nadar") commissioned the prominent balloonist Eugène Godard to construct Le Géant in 1863. 1863 (Date attributed to balloon flight) 1909 (Date attributed to postcard)

This postcard is part of a set originally collected in a scrapbook entitled Album Gravures et Cartes-Postales: Vieux Paris Types Petits Métiers et Cris De La Rue (1909).
Date 1909
date QS:P571,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q5090408
Notes Image downloaded with permission from the Science History Institute, as part of the Wikipedian in Residence initiative.
Source/Photographer https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/3197xn272
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