MONTGOLFIER, JOSEPH-MICHEL AND JACQUES-ETIENNE

Additional reading For biographical information on the family, see Lon Rostaing, La Famille de Montgolfier, ses alliances, ses descendants (1910, reprinted 1960); and the well-illustrated Comte Henry de La Vaulx and Paul Tissandier, Joseph et tienne de Montgolfier (1926). The technical problems encountered by the Montgolfiers and those who followed them are discussed by Gaston Tissandier in Histoire des ballons et des aronautes clbres, 2 vol. (188789). For a more recent study, see the illustrated Charles Dollfus and Henri Bouch, Histoire de l'aronautique (1932).