Sophie Blanchard,aka Marie Madeleine-Sophie Blanchard or Marie Sophie Armant (1778-1819),was a French aeronaut and an accomplished professional balloon pilot. She was appointed by Napoleon Bonaparte and later Louis XVIII as the Official Aeronaut. She specialised in inflight firework displays,and on July 6 1819,at one of her twice-weekly shows at the Tivoli Gardens in Paris,her hydrogen gas-filled balloon was ignited by the fireworks and she fell to her death onto a rooftop in the rue de Provence and then fell into the street. She was the widow of the balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard. She was the first woman to be killed in an aviation accident | |
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