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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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French Sovereign grants Mr. Blanchard 12,000 livres bounty and 1,200 livres annuity for his balloon descent; approves honors in Calais including displaying balloon in church; Guines corporation seeks permission for commemorative pyramid.
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"I have the pleasure to inform you that our Sovereign has been pleased to grant to Mr. Blanchard a bounty of twelve thousand livres, and an annuity of twelve hundred livres. His Majesty has likewise thought proper to approve of all the honours paid to our friend at Calais, and that the balloon and boat, according to the resolution of our corporation, shall be hung up in the principal church of this town, as the Minister has notified to our Mayor.
"The Corporation of Guines where Mr. Blanchard effected his descent, have written to the Minister for leave to erect a pyramid for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of so bold an attempt."
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Calais
Event Date
Jan. 18
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bounty of twelve thousand livres and annuity of twelve hundred livres granted to mr. blanchard; approval of honors in calais and display of balloon and boat in principal church; request for pyramid in guines to commemorate the descent.
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Letter informs of Sovereign's grant to Mr. Blanchard for his balloon descent in Guines; approval of honors paid in Calais, including hanging the balloon and boat in the principal church as notified by the Minister to the Mayor; Corporation of Guines seeks permission to erect a pyramid to perpetuate the memory of the attempt.