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A King Seen From the Sky, Bruno Gilbert, Hardback
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- ISBN
- 9781606064603
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- A King Seen from the Sky
- Item Height
- 210mm
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications
- Genre
- Children & Young Adults
- Item Width
- 216mm
- Item Weight
- 286g
- Number of Pages
- 36 Pages
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This delightful book by award-winning children's book author and illustrator Bruno Gibert is intended for five- to seven-year-olds. It is inspired by the true story of the first flight of living creatures in a handmade aircraft. On September 19, 1783, the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated their new invention, the hot air balloon, or montgolfiere, at the Palace of Versailles before a large crowd, including Louis XVI, the king of France, and Queen Marie Antoinette. Considered too dangerous for human passengers, the experimental vessel carried a sheep, a duck, and a rooster in its basket. The balloon flew for about eight minutes, covered a distance of roughly two miles, and reached an altitude of more than 1,500 feet before landing safely. The animals' balloon ride caused a sensation and the first human flight followed a few months later. By the end of 1873, Louis XVI had ennobled the Montgolfier family in recognition of the brothers' important achievements, which perhaps inspired a royal celebration for the animals like the one depicted in the book. In Gibert's fantasy, the animals anger the king at the fete by describing him as no bigger than the tiniest snail when viewed from high above the ground, and Louis imprisons them in the Bastille. While the direct role of the animals in the storming of the Bastille in 1789 can't quite be supported by historical evidence, this book does vividly evoke the stirring developments in aeronautics that took place right around the time of the French Revolution.
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Getty Trust Publications
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9781606064603
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Book Title
A King Seen from the Sky
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Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Children & Young Adults
Number of Pages
36 Pages
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Item Height
210mm
Item Width
216mm
Item Weight
286g
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Getty Publications- (Yale)
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United States
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