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Jacques Balsan. Jacques Balsan. Louis Jacques Balsan (September 16, 1868 – November 4, 1956) was a French aviator and industrialist, born at Châteauroux (Indre) in 1868, who was the second husband of society beauty Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. He married her immediately after her divorce from the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1921.
Jan 8, 2021 · Jacques Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt was a willowy beauty of 17 when the 26-year-old Frenchman and future aviation pioneer, Jacques Balsan, first saw her and fell in love. It would be nearly another 26 years before the two would finally marry in 1921 and Consuelo would find happiness with Jacques in France, and later in Southampton.
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Jul 28, 2021 · Jacques Balsan, who would later be one of the founders of the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I, showed such confidence in his balloon, Saint Louis, that he carried two passengers 759 miles to Danzig, Prussia (now Gdansk, Poland). But the winner of this round was Comte Henri de la Vaulx, who already held the long distance record of 824 miles ...
Ballooning, using gas balloons (which require no power, fuel or motors), was on the Summer Olympic Games programme in 1900. [1] [2] The aeronautical pioneer Henry de La Vaulx set two world records for distance and duration piloting a balloon flight. Nearly all events at the 1900 Games that satisfied four retrospective selection criteria ...
A ballooning event (aérostation) was an unofficial sport at 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. There were prizes in distance, duration, elevation, and target with and without stopping. In each of these events, there were three series: 1. Balloons of equal volume, handicapped in terms of ballast, 2. balloons of any volume, handicapped, 3. no handicap.
Loan exhibition; French and English art treasures of the eighteenth century. / Madame Jacques Balsan, Chairman, December 20 to 30, 1942. Contributor Names Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt. Parke-Bernet Galleries. Created / Published
Mar 26, 2022 · The Balsan connection took Churchill beyond the Riviera. His last painting before WWII was created at another property Consuelo and Jacques had bought in the late 1920s, that being the 16th century Château St-Georges-Motel, located near Dreux, north of Paris—their summer home.
