French airships
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[edit] French airships envisioned before 1852
 Airship designed by French engineer and general Jean-Baptiste Marie Meusnier de La Place (1754-1793) |
[edit] French airships before World War I
 Navigable ballon by Giffard (1852). |
 The dirigeable Dupuy de Lome made in 1872. |
 Dupuy de Lome dirigeable illustration from the Brockhaus Lexikon 1895 |
 Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883 |
 La France was an electrically powered 1884 dirigeable by Renard and Krebs |
 La France in its hangar, 1885 |
 Santos-Dumont rounding the Eiffel Tower while in the process of winning the Deutsch prize on October 19, 1901. |
 Diagram of the French semirigid military airship Patrie, which broke free and was lost in 1907-11-30 |
[edit] French airships during World War I
 1918 view from French dirigible |
[edit] French airships after World War I
 LZ121 Nordstern made by Zeppelin company intended for regular flights to Stockholm; ordered to be transferred to France as Méditerranée in the context of war reparations. |
