CONTENTS.                                            vii
 

CHAPTER VII.

PAGE

ASCENT  AT   SUNSET....................      186
 

CHAPTER VIII.

FROM  PARIS   INTO   PRUSSIA,  BY  ROCROI,  AIX-LA-CHAPELLE,  AND  COLOGNE     .      197

CHAPTER IX.

FROM PARIS INTO PRUSSixi {continued).............206

CHAPTER X.

FROM THE CONSERVATOIRE DES ARTS ET METIERS TO THE GARDENS OF

BEAUGENCY ,...,,  ...............  217
 

PART III.
TRAVELS OF MM. FONVTELLE AND TLSSANBIEll

CHAPTER I, ^

TPIE  LAST  VOYAGES  OF  THE  " GIANT ".......,.,,,.     233

(W. de Fonvielle.)

CHAPTER 11.

THE  CAPTIVE  BALLOON  AT  THE  EXHIBITION—THE  FALLING  STARS        .     .     ,      253

(W. de Fonvielle.)

CHAPTER IIP

THE " ENTREPRENANT ^^ BALLOON—VOYAGE'FROM PARIS TO FBRRIERES ,  .     267

SECOND ASCENT—FROM PARIS TO COMPIEGNE...........     271

THIRD ASCENT—FROM PARIS TO COURCELLES (lOIRET)........     282

(W. de Fonvielle.)

CHAPTER IV.

MY DEBUT IN AEROSTATION—VOYAGE ABOVE THE NORTH SEA .....  290

(G. Tissandier.)