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Français : Caption: [recto]: Jacque Balma dit le Mont-Blanc.; Le 8 aout 1786 a 6 h: du soir, le docteur Paccard accompagné de Jacque Balma chasseur de cristal de la vallée de Chamouni parvint surle sommet le plus elevé du Montblanc jusqu'alors unaccessible apres 14 heures de marche à travers les glaces, Jacque Balma a depuis servi de guide a Mr de Saussure dans le meme voiage en 1787.; Bacle Dalbe Pinx. et Sculp. Balma, Jacques; Umrissradierung, koloriert
English: Portrait of Jacques Balmat wearing a navy jacket and purple waistcoat in a circular, ageing stone frame; beneath is an old ledge under which is a old, cracked, inscribed tablet supported by two wooden bars; an axe and a broken spear cross each other beneath the portrait; foliage grows around the whole structure. Lettered in tablet below portrait: "Le 8 aoust 1786 a 6hrs. du soir, le docteur Lacard accompagné de Jaque Balma chasseur de cristal de la vallée de Chamouni parvint sur le sommet le plus elevé du Mont blanc jusqu'alors inaccessible apres 14 heures de marche à travers les glaces. Jacque Balma a depuis servi de guide a Mr Saussure dans le meme voiage en 1787."
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Source helveticarchives.ch; Swiss National Library, Prints and Drawings Department
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Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe  (1761–1824)  wikidata:Q535751
 
Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe
Description French general, cartographer, topographer and painter
Date of birth/death 21 October 1761 Edit this at Wikidata 12 September 1824 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise Sèvres
Work period 1785-1824
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English: Swiss National Library, GS-GUGE-BACLER D'ALBE-F-1
German: Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, GS-GUGE-BACLER D'ALBE-F-1
French: Bibliothèque nationale suisse, GS-GUGE-BACLER D'ALBE-F-1
Italian: Biblioteca nazionale svizzera, GS-GUGE-BACLER D'ALBE-F-1

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