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Updated: June 16, 2025
Count de la Vaulx attempted this grand journey on October 12th, starting from Toulon with the intention of reaching Algiers, taking the precaution, however, of having a cruiser in attendance.
It ascended from the Champ de Mars, Paris, in 1853, with fifteen passengers, all of whom came back safely. The longest flight made in a balloon was that by Count de La Vaulx, 1193 miles in 1905. A mammoth balloon was built in London by A. E. Gaudron.
It was one sound coming from below which settled the dispute 'twixt heart and reason the sound of de Marmont's voice which though he was apparently speaking of indifferent matters had that same triumphant ring in it which Clyffurde had heard at Notre Dame de Vaulx this morning.
Where the broad highway between Grenoble and Gap parts company from the turbulent Drac, and after crossing the ravine of Vaulx skirts the plateau of La Motte with its magnificent panorama of forests and mountain peaks, a narrow bridle path strikes off at a sharp angle on the left and in wayward curves continues its length through the woods upwards to the hamlet of Vaulx and the shrine of Notre Dame.
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