The first balloon ascension, attempted and achieved by Pilâtre de Rozier, took place in the Bois de Boulogne on 21-11-1783. This first exploit was followed by others and men like the Brothers Montgolfier, the Marquis d'Arlandes, physicist Jacques Alexandre Charles then became the pioneers of what was to be modern aviation. Until then many of these Icaruses paid their audacity with their life...
