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Lenormand jumps from the tower of the Montpellier observatory, 1783. Illustration from the late 19th Century. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (May 25, 1757 – April 4, 1837 [1]) was a French chemist, physicist, inventor, monk, and a pioneer in parachuting.
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 31 – 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.
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.
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.
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand jumps from the tower of the Montpellier observatory, 1783. Illustration from the late 19th century. Illustration from the late 19th century. The first use of a frameless parachute, by André Garnerin in 1797 Schematic depiction of Garnerin's parachute, from an early nineteenth-century illustration.
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.
Lenormand was the first well known cartomancer and claimed to be the confidante of Empress Josephine and other local luminaries. She was so popular, and cartomancy with tarot became so well established in France following her work, that a special deck entitled the Grand Jeu de Mlle Lenormand was released in her name two years after her death.