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VERSAILLES · 19 SEPTEMBER 1783

Climb to the Sky

A sheep, a duck and a rooster, a balloon above Versailles, and a world learning to look up.

Made with Opus 5.5 · music by echohive
An artistic retelling of the 1783 flight. Motion, flashes and sound.

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Climb to the Sky

VERSAILLES · 19 SEPTEMBER 1783

Eight minutes, three and a half kilometres, and all three passengers survived. Two months later, on 21 November, two men rode a Montgolfier balloon over Paris. People could fly.

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A moving engraving in eight plates · music “Banjo Cloud Parade” by echohive · made with Opus 5.5
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An engraving that takes flight.

Made with Opus 5.5, this interactive scene follows a sheep, a duck and a rooster from the forecourt of Versailles into the sky. A three-dimensional landscape, painted cutouts and engraved shading unfold in eight movements to Banjo Cloud Parade by echohive.

Drag to look around, pinch or scroll to zoom, and use the timeline to travel backward and forward. Press 1–8 to jump between movements. Fullscreen is available where supported.

A real flight, artistically retold

On 19 September 1783, the Montgolfiers demonstrated their balloon before the royal family. Its three animal passengers survived an approximately eight-minute flight to Vaucresson, covering about 3.5 kilometres. Human free flight followed that November.

This is an artistic interpretation, not an exact historical reconstruction. The choreography, reactions, illustrated route and live altitude display are illustrative. Published height estimates vary. Selected source captions have been qualified; the original local scene is preserved.

Read the Palace of Versailles account or explore an 18th-century print at The Met.

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