France, Founder 1866 – 1943.
Georges Besançon founded and edited the aeronautical journal L'Aérophile. Besançon was a balloonist and journalist. Besançon helped train the later-celebrated balloonist Salomon Andrée, probably in the late 1880s.
Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky . . .
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