Jacques Charles
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Jacques Alexandre César Charles was a French inventor, scientist, and balloonist. Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him wit
Portrait by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, c. 1798
The balloon built by Charles and the Robert brothers is attacked by terrified villagers in Gonesse. Some of them even started attacking him because they weren't used to things flying.
Contemporary illustration of the first flight by Charles with Nicolas-Louis Robert, 1 December 1783. Viewed from the Place de la Concorde to the Tuileries Palace (destroyed in 1871)
Meusnier's dirigible
Gonesse
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Gonesse is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.5 km from the centre of Paris.
The Hôtel de Ville
Hotel-Dieu
Mural by Seb Toussaint at the La Fauconnière social housing estate