Wilfrid de Fonvielle

Wilfrid de Fonvielle , born with Paris the July 24th 1824 and dead the April 24th 1914, is a journalist, scientific popularizer and French aeronaut

He is the author of many articles for the reviews Nature, illustrated Science and the illustrated scientific magazine Electricity .

His/her brothers, Arthur (1830-1914) and Ulrich (1833-1911), made political journalism.

Principal publications

the fossil Man, zoological study of philosophy (1865)
Wonders of the invisible world (1865) Text in line
Flashes and thunder (1866) Text in line
modern Astronomy (1868)
Science in balloon (1869)
air Voyages (1870)
Balloons during the head office of Paris (1871)
Paris in flames, or the Days of May 1871 (1871)
Terror, or the Commune of Paris in the year 1871 revealed (1871)
the Fair with the candidates or electoral Paris in June 1871 (1871)
Last Talks of Mr. Rochefort, annotated, with accompanying notes and refuted (1871)
the Physics of the miracles (1872)
the Conquest of the air: beginnings of the voyage in zigzag (1874)
the final international Meter (1875)
air Adventures and memorable experiments of the large aeronauts (1876)
the Conquest of the north pole (1877)
the Ice floe of Polaris, adventures of the Tyson captain, told according to the American publications (1877)
the Forecast of the time (1878)
Néridah (2 volumes, 1879)
How are made the miracles apart from the Church (1879)
the Miracles in front of science (1880) Text in line
Great maritime Rises. The crossing of the English Channel (1882)
Installation of the first cable (1882)
the air Spy (1884). Republished under the title Falempin or the air, Romance Spy patriotic of the head office of Paris
Travelling acrobats of the science, how they make miracles (1884)
the Famished ones of the north pole, accounts of the forwarding of major Greely, according to the American newspapers (1885)
Le Monde of the atoms (1885)
Histoire of the moon (1886)
Mort of hunger, study on the new fasters (1886)
the Measurement of the meter, dangers and adventures of the scientists who determined it (1886)
François Arago, the youth of a large republican scientist (1886) Text in line
Endormeurs: the truth on hypnotizing, suggestionnists, hypnotizers, donatists, braidists, etc (1887)
How the Republics (1888) perish Text in line
the Catastrophe of the balloon Arago, with the portraits of Lhoste and Mangot (1888) Text in line
Oil (1888)
the South pole (1889) Text in line
the famous Ships (1890)
Histoire of polar forwardings (1892)
invisible Le Monde (1898)
the Sounding-balloons Misters Hermite and Besancon and the international rises (1898) Text in line
Adventures of a French in Klondyke (1900) Text in line
Dupuy of Lome, engineer of naval constructions and aeronautics (1816-1885) (1905)
Histoire of the aerial navigation (1907)
Our air fleet (1908)
the French Aeronauts in Transvaal (3 volumes, S.D.)
Manuel practices of the aeronaut (S.D.)

Sources

Dictionnaire practices Quillet (1958)

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