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CONTENTS
xi
CHAPTER II.
Experiments and Studies—Blanchard at Talis—Guyton de Morveau at Dijon 103
CHAPTER III.
Experiments in Montgolfières—Roders and Proust—The Duke of Chartres—The Comte d'Artois—Voyage of the Abbé Camus to Rodez 117
CHAPTER IV.
Serio-comic Aspects of the Subject—The Public duped— The Abbés Miolan and Janninct at the Luxembourg— Caricatures—The "Minerva" of Robertson, and its Voyage round the World 127
CHAPTER V.
The First Aerial Voyage in England—Blanchard crosses the Sea in a Balloon 134
CHAPTER VI.
Zambeccari's Perilous Trip across the Adriatic Sea 145
CHAPTER VII.
Garnerin—Parachutes—Aerostation at Public Fêtes 150
CHAPTER VII.
Green's Great Journey across Europe 156