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August 27, 1783: Benjamin Franklin witnessed the world’s first hydrogen balloon flight in Paris, France.
He was so impressed that he agreed to be a financial backer for the first manned balloon flight.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins

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2021-08-27

FROM GERMANY & US: A Jewish couple, H.A. and Margret Rey spent quite a lot of time in their lives fleeing nazis: first from Germany, then from Paris, on handmade bikes with the Curious George manuscript in tow, for which Margret wrote the text and H.A. did the illustrations.

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2021-08-26

August 22, 1806: French painter/printmaker Jean-Honoré Fragonard dies.

Fragonard's "Coresus and Callirhoë" (1765) was exhibited at the Salon in Paris, where it was subsequently purchased for King Louis XV.

🎨 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, "Coresus and Callirhoë", 1765

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2021-08-23

Les "Alphabets", dessinés par E. Mulier et publiés dans "Lettres et Enseignes Art Nouveau", Paris, France, 1901 - 1903.

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2021-08-22

I finally got Paris, the city. But I don't like it much

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2021-08-20

Thomas Shotter Boys, Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen: Hôtel de Cluny, Paris, 1839 https://t.co/qGqyKgV86A

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2021-08-20

DID YOU KNOW? 🛩️ French inventor Alphonse Pénaud first used twisted rubber to power a flying model and his 'Planophore' launched in Paris, 🇫🇷 on 18 Aug 1871. Humankind became one step closer to commercial air travel. 😮

READ STORY: https://t.co/FMc6E3N39P

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2021-08-19

🍄 Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux
Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891.
https://t.co/e2E0c8hRvC

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2021-08-15

Fashion plate from La mode de Paris, Summer 1895. Claremont Colleges Digital Library.

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2021-08-13

Art Nouveau flamingo alphabet designed by E. Mulier and published in "Lettres et Enseignes Art Nouveau" - Paris, France , 1901.

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2021-08-13

monokendo au !¡ city ​​of love

onde a fotógrafa kendo viaja para paris, e por recomendação vai à um famoso restaurante, no qual acaba conhecendo monoma, um renomado chefe de cozinha

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2021-08-10

Thanks to my friend from Paris, France for purchasing this wonderful framed original art print: https://t.co/wbWtdawvV3

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2021-08-06

Two years ago today we were in Disneyland Paris, I drew the castle, and a hydrant, and had a nice cocktail called 'African Dream', it was fun times.

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2021-08-03

Paris, HELL picture progress pic from late yesterday
Hope you like! am working on more rn

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2021-08-03

bestie you looked so good in Paris, literal fashion icon 🧎🤏🏼

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2021-08-01

Some more of my recent travel drawings (Paris, Cassis, Weimar)
Click here for the whole series: https://t.co/dC9IjJq9iI

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2021-08-01

🌼 Nouvelle flore coloriée de poche des Alpes et des Pyrénées.
Paris, Klincksieck, 1906-1912.
https://t.co/kiCfx7L22v

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2021-08-01

Frans Masereel (Belgian, 1889-1972) "Street with street lights, Paris, in the evening" 1939

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2021-07-30

Combat Singulier entre Mardi-Gras et Mercredi-des-Cendres"
Copper etching by monogramist G. B. Ch. after his own drawing.
Published in Paris, ca. 1830
Frugality fighting opulence. Frugality winning over debauchery in Ash Wednesday, the beginning of lent the ending of carnival.

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2021-07-30