Elise Garnerin

Engraving by Elise Garnerin (1854 according to the Library of Congress, Washington)

Miss Garnerin's third and final jump before she goes to London.

Elise Garnerin (* 1791, possibly also 1792/1793 in Paris † April 1853) was André-Jacques Garnerin's niece and a member of his aerial acrobat troupe, a balloonist, aerialist and parachutist . Ten days after Jeanne Labrosse , on October 22, 1799, Elise Garnerin dared her first jump from a height of 1000 m. She ignored the doctors' warning that "jumping like that, the pressure of the air could endanger the delicate organs of a young girl."

Life

For years Elise Garnerin impressed her audience with ever more daring feats. At the victory celebration in Paris for the final victory over Napoléon in 1815, she impressed the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. when she landed safely in a stubble field after jumping from a height of 1000 m and presented herself boldly to the king and the spectators with the parachute tied around her waist.

Between 1815 and 1828, the "Venus in the Balloon" performed a total of 39 jumps in front of an audience. Years after she had withdrawn into private life, other aerial acrobats advertised themselves on their posters as the “false garner”.

literature

Jutta Rebmann : When a woman blew up. The story of the early female pilots. Stieglitz-Verlag, Mühlacker / Irdning 2001, ISBN 3-7987-0361-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ Histoire des idées aeronautiques avant Montgolfier , p. 263, N. 3
↑ ^a ^b ^c Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 181
↑ ^a ^b P. Caron, Cl. Gével: Mademoiselle Élisa Garnerin, aéronaute. In: Revue Bleue. 1912, p. 439 , accessed on April 11, 2016 (French): "En avril 1853, Elias Garnerin mourait à Paris, âgée de soixante ans"

personal data
SURNAME	Garnerin, Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Balloonist, aerialist and skydiver
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	April 1853

[1] Histoire des idées aeronautiques avant Montgolfier , p. 263, N. 3

[Lux-2] Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 181

[revue_bleue-3] P. Caron, Cl. Gével: Mademoiselle Élisa Garnerin, aéronaute. In: Revue Bleue. 1912, p. 439 , accessed on April 11, 2016 (French): "En avril 1853, Elias Garnerin mourait à Paris, âgée de soixante ans"