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 On that occasion, the late Mr. Campos Salles, then President of the Republic, sent me a gold medal and, soon after, I was pleasantly surprised with the receipt of a prize of 100,000$000, which was offered to me by the National Congress of Brazil; besides these, I received two other medals: one from the French Institute, and another from the French Aero Club.

After my No. 6, I built several other balloons, which did not give me the desired results. There is a saying that teaches "Genius is a great patience"; without pretending to be a genius, I insisted in being a great patient. Inventions are, above all, the result of stubborn work, in which there should be no room for complacency.

I finally managed to build my No. 9; with it I was able to achieve something; I made dozens of rides over Paris, went to the races several times, from it I stood outside my house, on the Avenue des Champs Elysees, and in it, almost every night, I raced over the Bois de Boulogne.