Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse, 1775–1847) 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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1775
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1847 (aged 71)
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