Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de France

Owing to a desire to include within its purview heavier-than-air machines as well as balloons, the Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de France (Aerostatic and Meteorologic Society of France), founded 17 May 1865, changed its name in January 1869 to La Société Aéronautique et Météorologique de France. It appears that there were always still those who favored the original name and purpose and on 25 July 1872, the officers who were of that mind resigned and the society collapsed. Those who resigned formed a new organization on 12 August 1872, the Société Française de Navigation Aérienne (SFNA).

L'Aéronaute remained the official journal of the renamed Société Aéronautique et Métérologique de France and its editor Hureau de Villeneuve was its secretary general. Those who resigned 25 July 1872 included J. Croce-Spinelli and Motard, vice presidents; Hureau de Villeneuve, general secretary; A. Saco, F. Michel, and O. Frion, associate secretaries; and Félix Caron, treasurer. Among those who did not resign was the society's president, Gustave-Louis-Marie de Ponton d'Amécourt, who, in 1865, was president of its predecessor, the Société Aérostatique et Météorologique. Amécourt eventually associated with the Société Française de Navigation Aérienne (SFNA), for he was its president in 1877.

Sources: 2 L'Aéronaute (1869); 28 Journal of the RAeS 644-646 (1924)

Organization names	Society Aeronautic and Meteorologic of France : Société Aéronautique et Météorologique de France, La [For prior history see Society Aerostatic and Meteorologic of France : Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de France (2)]
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Country	France
City	Paris
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Scope	National
Started aero	1865 ; name changed 1869
Ended aero	1872, August
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