Author: 19th Century wood engraver
Title: Les Aerostats: Mort de Madame Blanchard, le 16 Juillet 1819, Dans la Rue de Provence, a Paris
Description: Paris: Illustration for Les Merveilles De La Science ou Description Populaire des Inventions Modernes by Louis Figuier, circa 1870. Hand-colored wood engraving. 19 x 15 cm (sheet). Text in French on verso. Sophie Blanchard was an aeronaut and the widow of Pierre Blanchard, an aeronaut himself. On July 16, 1819, as she was taking part in an exhibition, the fireworks she was supposed to launch set fire to her balloon, causing it to crash on the roofs. Very Good. .

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