Monument des Freres Farman

The same plain. First Millet's peasants bowed here over their potato harvest while the bell of Chailly rang across the fields. Then, sixty years later, Henri Farman landed his biplane on this grass, and suggested to the mayor that this open space - so long a canvas for painters - become a runway for the machines that would shrink the world. The Plaine de l'Angelus has always attracted people who saw possibility in open space. The painters saw light. The aviators saw lift. Both were right.