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English: The "Ville d'Orléans", a manned gas balloon carrying military messages and mail during the German siege of Paris in the Franco–Prussian War 1870–71, taking off from the city late at night on Thursday 24th November 1870, loosing its course in the strong winds and landing in a snowy Lifjell mountain area in Seljord, Norway the day after. The two frenchmen made their way back to France through Oslo and London over the next couple of weeks. The journey was the longest balloon flight until then and attracted great attention in its time. Read more about the remarkable voyage in "Through The Air" (1873, pages 233–240), "The balloon. Noteworthy aerial voyages, from the discovery of the balloon to the present time" (1879, pages 42–49), and "A Short History of Balloons and Flying Machines" (1907, pages 65–68).


Photo taken by Ludwik Szaciński in January 1871 showing the balloon on exhibition in Oslo, Norway.


Norsk bokmål: Luftballogen «La Ville de'Orléans» utstilt i «Den Franske Bazar», Klingenberg, Tivoli, Stortingsgata 20, Oslo. Foto tatt av Ludwik Szaciński i januar 1871. Bildet viser «Pariser-Ballonen», en gassfylt ballong som tok av fra Paris 24. november 1970 med post og to personer under den prøyssiske beleiringen av byen under den fransk-tyske krigen. Gassballongen kom ut av kurs og landet i et vinterlig Norge; ballongførerne Rolier og Bézier havnet på Lifjell i Seljord i Telemark, nesten 15 timer etter oppstigingen og 1200 km i luftlinje fra Paris, mens postballongen, gondolen, postsekker og brevduer havarerte ved Krøderen i Hallingdalen. Den rekordlange og dramatiske ballongferden ble en sensasjon i samtiden.
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Author Ludwik Szacinski de Ravics / Oslo Museum

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