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Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin
French balloonist and parachutist (1775–1847) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse; 7 March 1775 – 14 June 1847)[1] was a French balloonist and parachutist. She was the first to ascend solo and the first woman to make a parachute descent (in the gondola), from an altitude of 900 metres (3,000 ft) on 12 October 1799.
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Labrosse first flew on 10 November 1798, one of the earliest women to fly in a balloon.[Note 1] She was the wife of André-Jacques Garnerin, a hydrogen balloonist and inventor of the frameless parachute.