Ahem, this is the 1907 Aeroplane of Emile Barlatier and Henri Blanc.
The
Precurseurs Aviation website gives a little bit of background to the work of these two men. Of the flying machine in question, the relevant text can be roughly translated as:
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In 1906, Blanc and Barlatier conceive without success, the first single-seater monoplane with wings inspired by the bat. The kite is pulled by two propellers driven by a central engine of 14 hp Buchet.
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The machine can also be seen on page 10 of this well-researched paper,
1907, l'annee de l'aerostation.pdf, and which dates the aircraft to May 1907.
There is this offering from the internet:
This newspaper dates from
11 March, 1906 and shows an earlier version of the Aeroplane.
In 1908, they built another
flying machine.
Cheers,
Paul