Jacques Theodore Saconney
Jacques-Théodore Saconney (1874 Torino, Italy – 1935 Dijon, France) was a Senior French Army General, an innovative scientific and an adventurous balloonist.
He has foreseen the future developments of the French civil and military air navigation. His legacy in strong: as an academic, he has provided interesting insights in mathematics and in the development of modern meteorology. As a military officer, he has been at the forefront of the early French military and civil aviation, and the development of military kites and a new discipline, the kite aerial photography.
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“I’ve learned one thing about life. We’re a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.”
—Ardel Wray, Edward Dien, and Jacques Tourneur. Dr. Galbraith(James Bell)