"The Giant",  Balloon flown by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar) 
<p>Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of the hot air balloon <i>Le Géant</i> (The Giant) flown by French photographer and journalist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910). A proponent of manned flight, Tournachon (better known by the pseudonym "Nadar") commissioned the prominent balloonist Eugène Godard to construct <i>Le Géant</i> in 1863.
1863 (Date attributed to balloon flight)   
1909 (Date attributed to postcard)
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This postcard is part of a set originally collected in a scrapbook entitled <i>Album Gravures et Cartes-Postales: Vieux Paris Types Petits Métiers et Cris De La Rue</i> (1909).
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Molynk, A.</div>
1909<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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