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Transport of the balloon 'Entreprenant' from Mauberge to Charleroi, 1794 (1890s). In 1794 the revolutionary Committee of Public Safety established a company of balloonists for the French Army, the French Aerostatic Corps, based at Meudon in the suburbs of Paris. One of their balloons, the 'Entreprenant' provided vital reconnaissance information at the Battle of Fleurus in 1794. From the series The Dream of Flight. From a private collection.