Originally Posted by
sycamore
Is it in France, ..Paris..?
Who is `he`, Pilatre de Rosiere,...Louis B,,...?
Paris neighbourhood indeed
Not one of the Pioneers above.
There is a French song about him
partial Free translation:
The plane!, the plane!
It climbs into the air,
It hovers over the mountains, it crosses the seas,
Let it go to watch the sun like Icarus
And that it may astray even further
And it puts a trace in the sky, an eternal furrow
But let's keep it the suave name of a plane
Because of it’s magic word, the five clever letters
This virtue opens up mobile skies.
French, what did you do with his air castles?
He left a word, but there is nothing else left of him.