France Bronze Medal Siege Of Paris 1870-1871 Pigeon Post For French Military Communications.

The Siege of Paris

On 19^th September 1870, Paris was encircled by German armies. For the next four and a half months, Parisians were besieged, trapped in a ring of iron and fire, hardly able to communicate with the rest of France and with the outside world. Balloons were brought into service, and succeeded in carrying quantities of mail out of Paris. The first successful balloon flight was made by “Neptune”, piloted by Jules Duruof, which left Paris on 23^rd September carrying official despatches for the Delegation at Tours. On 25^th September a second balloon, “Ville de Florence”, piloted by Gabriel Mangin also carried three homing pigeons and these brought messages back to Paris. Thereafter most of the siege balloons which left Paris also took baskets of pigeons. If the balloon landed safely in non-occupied territory, the pigeons were used to carry messages back to the capital. Thanks to the ingenuity of French photographers and to the bravery of her aeronauts, microphotography was applied this pigeon post service, with astonishingly successful results.

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