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Image Title: Les Auteurs De La Belle Bourbonnaise, 1874

Creator: LaFosse, G., 1850-1880, artist

Date: 1874.

Summary: French caricature shows two men in a balloon basket shaped like a tri-corner hat attached to a balloon with the face of a man (possibly Italian statesman Francesco Crispi) labeled "La belle Bourbonnaise" for an 1874 comic opera by Ernest Dubreuil and H. Chabrillet, with music by Auguste Coedes.

Subjects: Balloons (Aircraft)--1870-1880
Operas & operettas--France--1870-1880

Original Media: Lithograph

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