The hot air balloon 'Marie Antoinette' was flown by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and French chemist Joseph Louis Proust on June 23rd 1784 at Versailles in front of King Louis XVI and King Gustav III of Sweden, hand coloured engraving, 1784

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