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Updated: May 13, 2025
I feared, however, that he might hear the hissing noise, like a water-course, which the gas makes in escaping. "How many jokes were made about the Abbé Miolan!" said he. "He was to go up with Janninet and Bredin. During the filling their balloon caught fire, and the ignorant populace tore it in pieces! Then this caricature of 'curious animals' appeared, giving each of them a punning nickname."
The Abbe Miolan was represented as a cat with a band round its neck, while Janninet appeared as a donkey; and in a coloured print the cat and the ass are shown arriving in triumph upon their famous balloon at the Academy of Montmartre, and are received at the hill of Moulins-a-Vent by a solemn assembly of turkey-cocks and geese in different attitudes.
The Rothschilds' box is one of the largest in the opera-house. The Princess Metternich created a sensation when we entered she always does but Herr Wagner passed unnoticed. He sat behind and pretended to go to sleep. He thought everything most mediocre. The opera was "Faust," which I thought was beautifully put on the stage, with Madame Miolan Carvalho as Marguerite and Faure as Mephistopheles.
It was to be feared, nevertheless, that he would notice that rushing sound, like a waterfall, which the gas produces in escaping. "How many jests at the expense of the Abbé Miolan! He was about to ascend with Janninet and Bredin. During the operation, their balloon took fire, and an ignorant populace tore it to pieces.
Madame Carvalho did not refuse to pay Delsarte for her lessons, but she did not want to be called his pupil. Although she had attended the Conservatoire, she wanted to be known solely as a pupil of Duprez. As a matter of fact it was Duprez who knew how to make the "Little Miolan," the delightful warbler, into the great singer with her important place on the French stage.
Numerous songs and epigrams, of which the unfortunate abbes were the subjects, also appeared at this time. The letters which composed the words "l'Abbe Miolan" were found to form the anagram, Ballon abime "the balloon swallowed up." The most extravagant balloon project was that of Robertson, who published a scheme for making a tour of the world. The following is this aeronaut's prospectus:
We then pressed out the hot air, folded up the envelope, placed it upon a small cart drawn by two oxen, and drove off with it." Serio-Comic Aspect of the Subject The Public Duped The Abbes Miolan and Janninet at the Luxembourg Caricatures The "Minerva" of Robertson, and its Voyage Round the World.
The famous ascent of the Abbes Miolan and Janninet, at the Luxembourg, may be cited as among the failures which suffered most from the satire of the time. Their immense balloon, constructed at great expense at the observatory, was expected to rise beyond the clouds, and a multitude, each of whom had paid dearly for his ticket, had assembled at the Luxembourg.
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