Le Petit Parisien 8 August 1897 Last page: Un ballon au Pole Nord. Article on the Andree expedition.
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 with luck was to pass straight over the North Pole on the way.
