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François Laurent le Vieux d'Arlandes Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. The first manned free balloon flight 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon
From the book Wonderful Balloon Ascents or The Conquest of the Skies published c 1870.
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