Article – Balloons: From Hot Air Balloons to the Olympic Cauldron of the 2024 Games

Thank you to Allures Magazine for this article, which begins as follows: “There are images that remain etched in our memories forever. On July 26, 2024, at 11:25 p.m., the Olympic cauldron rose majestically in the Tuileries Garden. A moment of pure poetry. Jérôme Giacomoni and Matthieu Gobbi tell the story of this balloon and many others. In a fascinating book, they tell the saga of the pioneers, inventors, and dreamers behind these extraordinary objects…” (…)