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François Laurent d'Arlandes
François Laurent le Vieux d'Arlandes
(1742 – 1 May 1809) was a French
marquis
, soldier and a pioneer of
hot air ballooning
. He and
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a
Montgolfier
balloon.
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