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by peanut_worm 1943 days ago
The balloon travelled for “forty-five minutes and fifteen miles to the village of Genoesse, where it was attacked by frightened peasants on landing.”
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Supposedly they started carrying Champagne with them after this so that the locals where they landed would know that they were fellow Frenchmen.
a simpler time