Autograph Note Signed to "Monsieur le Directeur du Journal Le Siecle" WITH printed letter to Durnoz from "Un habitant du Creuzot"

Author: 
J. Durnof.
Publication details: 
(Durnof) Paris le 21 Octobre 1874 (le Creuzot) 20 Octobre 1874.
£425.00
SKU: 4611

Pioneer airman / aeronaut. Form googled site: "Mr. Durnof, aeronaut, founder with Nadar and Camille Dartois of the Company of the military francs balloon pilots, and Mrs. Durnof". (Durnof) One page, 4to, referring to a medal he has received and the printed letter whivch accompanies this note, Durnof asks for a few words in "votre estimabe journal". Conjoint: printed letter, one page, 4to, signed "G .....(un habitant de Creuzot") in which Durnof's flight "courageuse ascension de Calais, j'allais dire temeraire" is praised in magniloquence, and he is told of the medal being struck in commemoration. This letter is addressed in manuscript "A Mr J, Durnof . Ingr Aeuronaute / 14 Rue Laterale St Joseph . . . Copie".