French airships

English: This gallery contains selected airships constructed in, purchased by, or transferred to, France.

Français : Cette page contient une sélection d'aérostats construits ou transférés en France, ainsi que certains achetés par la France.

French airships envisioned before 1852

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  Airship designed by French engineer and general Jean-Baptiste Marie Meusnier de La Place (1754-1793)

French airships before World War I

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  Navigable ballon by Giffard (1852).
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  The dirigeable Dupuy de Lome made in 1872.
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  Dupuy de Lome dirigeable illustration from the Brockhaus Lexikon 1895
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  Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883
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  La France was an electrically powered 1884 dirigeable by Renard and Krebs
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  La France in its hangar, 1885
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  Santos-Dumont rounding the Eiffel Tower while in the process of winning the Deutsch prize on October 19, 1901.
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  Diagram of the French semirigid military airship Patrie, which broke free and was lost in 1907-11-30

French airships during World War I

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  1918 view from French dirigible

French airships after World War I

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  LZ121 Nordstern made by Zeppelin company intended for regular flights to Stockholm; ordered to be transferred to France as Méditerranée in the context of war reparations.