French students celebrate birth of ballooning

Posted at: 10/04/2009 10:20 AM
By: Eyewitness News 4

A group of French students from Annonay, France are in Albuquerque to see Balloon Fiesta. On Wednesday, they will parade around Balloon Fiesta Park in 18th century period costumes to celebrate the world's first balloon flights from their area in France, when the Montgolfier brothers filled paper envelopes with smoke and released them into the sky.
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