Accidental balloon ride of 12-year-old Guerin in Nantes, 1845. The balloon's anchor caught in his trouser belt and took him 300m in the air. Woodblock engraving from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Paris, 1868.

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