The Fantastic Albert Robida and Pierre Giffard and their prescient UFO creations

Pierre Giffard published La Guerre Infernale, a serialized magazine in France at the turn of the 20th Century.

It was a sensation, enhanced by Albert Robida's drawings.

You will find more Albert Robida at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Robida

And more about the magazine and both men at:

http://www.merveilleuxscientifique.fr/auteurs/robida-alfred-la-guerre-infernale/

Copies of the magazine are signified at http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:292001

Here are Monseur Robida's flying saucer drawings from 1908:

Some UFO devotees see the drawings and accounts in La Guerre Infernale as the inspiration for Nazi Germany's foray into flying saucer design.

(The Infernal War was a war between France (Europe) and Germany in the fictional stories.)

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