Blanchard's+Balloon

=Blanchard's Big Yellow Balloon= =Jean-Pierre Blanchard launched his balloon first in Paris on March 2 1784 in a hydrogen balloon.His flight almost ended in a disaster because a French officer slashed the ropes holding his balloon to the earth. After the early balloon flights a period of balloonia followed, causing paintings of balloons, poofy hair, poofy clothes and poofy brains ( oh wait thats today ) and on November 30 1784 he flew across the English Channel, landing in France.=