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Lenormand is considered the first man to make a witnessed descent with a parachute and is also credited with coining the term parachute, from the Latin prefix para meaning "against", an imperative form of parare = to avoid, avert, defend, resist, guard, shield or shroud, from paro = to parry, and the French word chute for "fall", hence the word "parachute" literally means an aeronautic device ...
Sébastien René Lenormand (2 April 1796, in Condé-sur-Noireau – 10 December 1871) was a French lawyer and botanist who specialized in the field of phycology. From 1817 he studied law in Paris , and following graduation (1820), practiced law in the town of Vire .
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (1772–1843), also known as Marie Anne Le Normand, [1] was a French bookseller, necromancer, fortune-teller and cartomancer of considerable fame during the Napoleonic era. Lenormand was highly influential on the wave of French cartomancy that began in the late 18th century.
Lenormand or Le Normand is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Henri-René Lenormand (1882–1951), French playwright; Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757–1837), French physicist, inventor and pioneer in parachuting; Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), French professional fortune-teller for more than 40 years, famous during the ...
Franz Reichelt (16 October 1878 – 4 February 1912), also known as Frantz Reichelt [1] or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born [2] French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.
December 26 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute descent by jumping from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in France using his rigid-framed model which he intends as a form of fire escape.
Johann Kaspar Hechtel (1 May 1771 – 20 December 1799) was a German businessman, owner of a brass factory in Nuremberg, non-fiction writer and designer of parlour games including the prototype for the Petit Lenormand cartomancy deck. According to published biographies, Hechtel also contributed anonymously to some treatises on physics.
He was the son of Louis-François Lenormand and Marie-Jeanne-Antoinette Huvé. Grandson of the architect Jean-Jacques Huvé (1742–1808) and nephew of Jean-Jacques-Marie Huvé (1783–1852), [2] he was a student of his uncle and Antoine-François Peyre (1739–1823) at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.