Balloon flown by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar), postcard - adab845ad3c6cc26f275720b59a6fc33

Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of the hot air balloon "“Le Géant” ("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 Le Géant in 1863. This postcard is part of a set originally collected in a scrapbook entitled Album Gravures et Cartes-Postales: Vieux Paris Types Petits Métiers et Cris De La Rue (1909).