Punch,  19 (1850), 209.

All up with the Pope

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Aeronautics, Natural History


    Claims that Mme Poitevin, the French Aeronaut, 'has almost exhausted Buffon's Natural History' for the types of animals on which she sits whilst making a balloon ascent, and notes that Poitevin is about to turn to the 'Papal Bull'.



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