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The latter exploded, and Garnerin descended in his parachute very rapidly.
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At eleven o'clock in the evening, at the moment when the first discharge of fireworks made the air luminous with a hundred thousand stars, Garnerin threw off his immense balloon.
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Garnerin; and it fell a short distance off in a marsh.
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These facts came to the ear of the great general, who manifested much indignation, dismissed the innocent Garnerin from his post, and appointed Madame
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Your Majesty doubtless remembers that they have been discussing lately in the circle of her Majesty the Empress the chagrin of poor Garnerin, who has not succeeded up to this time in finding the balloon which he sent up on the day of the fete given to your Majesty by the city of Paris.
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Garnerin had attached to his balloon the following notice:
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This same balloon was again used at the ascension which Madame Garnerin made at Moscow with
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The aeronaut Garnerin left Paris at half-past six in the evening, and descended the morning of the next day at Maule, in the department of
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Garnerin ascended more than four thousand toises [24,000 ft.]
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Garnerin, but still a practical machine, was described 189 years before the great aeronaut's feat at Paris.
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