Henri Lachambre was a French

French people

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 manufacturer of balloon

Balloon

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s. His factory was in the Paris

Paris

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 suburb Vaugirard. He also participated in ballooning himself and attained a number of 500 ascents.

Lachambre supplied balloons to both the US Signal Corps  and the ill-fated arctic mission of S. A. Andrée

S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897

S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. S. A. Andrée , the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass,...

 in 1897. He worked together with the Brazilian aviation

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 pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Alberto Santos-Dumont , was a Brazilian early pioneer of aviation. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, Santos Dumont dedicated himself to science studies in Paris, France, where he spent most of his adult life....

, who in 1898 flew his first self-owned balloon.

Together with his nephew Alexis Machuron Lachambre wrote a book about Andrée's expedition, Au pôle nord en ballon (Imprimerie Nilsson, 1897, 250 pages), which was quickly translated into Swedish, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch and Polish.