With the successful demonstration at Versailles, and…

With the successful demonstration at Versailles, and again in collaboration with Réveillon, Étienne starts construction of a sixty thousand-cubic-foot (seventeen hundred square meters) balloon for the purpose of making flights with humans.

The balloon is about seventy-five feet tall and about fifty feet in diameter.

It has rich decorative touches supplied by Réveillon.

The color scheme is gold figures on a deep blue background.

Fleur-de-lis, signs of the zodiac, and suns with Louis XVI's face in the center interlaced with the royal monogram in the central section grace the majestic machine.

Red and blue drapery and golden eagles are at the base of the balloon.

It is fitting that Étienne Montgolfier is the first human to lift off the earth, making at least one tethered flight from the yard of the Réveillon workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

It is most likely on October 15, 1783.

A little while later on that same day, Pilâtre de Rozier becomes the second to ascend into the air, to an altitude of eighty feet (twenty- four meters), which is the length of the tether.