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    Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (May 25, 1757 – April 4, 1837) was a French chemist, physicist, inventor, monk, and a pioneer in parachuting. Lenormand was...
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  • Lenormand or Le Normand is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Henri-René Lenormand (1882–1951), French playwright Louis-Sébastien Lenormand...
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    effective parachute. Early parachuting successes, such as those of Louis-Sébastien Lenormand and Jean-Pierre Blanchard, had successfully used fixed-canopy...
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    in the late 18th century by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in France, who made the first recorded public jump in 1783. Lenormand also sketched his device beforehand...
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  • Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon. 1783: Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invents and uses the first modern parachute. 1785: Martinus van...
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    parachutist was suspended by ropes from each of the four corners. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand is considered the first human to make a witnessed descent with...
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  • whatever questions are being asked. Ranger Rabbit (voiced by Lisette St. Louis) – Elinor's mom, who works as a park ranger. Mr. Rabbit (voiced by Colin...
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    March 31 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776) April 4 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, French chemist, physicist, and inventor (b. 1757) April 28 –...
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    Napoléon. Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas (1753–1837), military leader. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757–1837), chemist, physicist, inventor, the world's first modern...
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  • Louis-Sébastien Lenormand. Compressed air vehicle and Pneumatic motor by Andraud and Tessie of Motay in Chaillot on July 9, 1840, improved by Louis Mékarski...
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    Washington "the greatest character of the age." December 31 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute...
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    and Louis XVI, a duck, a rooster, and a sheep were carried by a Montgolfier brother balloon for eight minutes. In the early 1780s, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand...
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    – Ludwig von Brauchitsch, Prussian general (d. 1827) May 25 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, French chemist, physicist and inventor (d. 1837) May 30 – Henry...
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    trip by balloon on 8 July 1798 from the Parc Monceau in Paris. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand – inventor and pioneer in parachuting. On 20 May 1784, the Marchioness...
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    Washington "the greatest character of the age." December 31 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute...
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  • 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) over Nesles-la-Vallée. December 26, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute...
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    Lesson, surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, chemist, physicist, inventor and the first pioneer in modern...
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  • 100 metres above Paris for a distance of 9 km. December 26 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute...
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    October 1797. He was not the first to use a parachute, since Louis-Sébastien Lenormand had descended by parachute at Montpellier in 1783, but his jump...
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  • acoustics Louis-Sébastien Lenormand Louis Alan Hazeltine Louis Alfred Becquerel Louis B. Slichter Louis Essen Louis Georges Gouy Louis Harold Gray Louis Michel...
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  • the Sandwich Islands (present Hawaii) (born 1796) December - Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, physicist, inventor and pioneer in parachuting (born 1757) Jean...
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  • minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog 337380 Lenormand 2001 QS85 Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757–1837), a French chemist, physicist and inventor...
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    needed] Following the invention of the modern parachute in 1783 by Sébastien Lenormand in France, in 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as a means...
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  • Rouland Ferdinand Hérold, Le Pré Aux Clercs, Marie-Ève Munger, Marie Lenormand, Jeanne Crousaud, Michael Spyres, Éric Huchet & Christian Helmer, Coro...
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    Michel Castellani, Paul-André Colombani, Charles de Courson, Stéphane Lenormand, Max Mathiasin, Christophe Naegelen, and Olivier Serva are all committed...
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    Cour de Cassation, initially designed by Louis Lenormand from 1838 to his death in 1862, executed by Joseph-Louis Duc and Étienne Theodore Dommey who directed...
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    Truffaut Retour à Marseille Cécé René Allio Il cappotto di Astrakan Maria Lenormand Marco Vicario L'empreinte des géants Germaine Hansen Robert Enrico The...
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  • 6th Lionel Royer-Perreaut RE Olivier Fayssat LR (UXD) No 7th Sébastien Delogu LFI Sébastien Delogu LFI Yes 8th Jean-Marc Zulesi RE Romain Tonussi RN No...
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    Maurice Donnay after Aristophanes 1931: Les Trois Chambres by Henri-René Lenormand 1931: Monsieur de Saint-Obin by André Picard and Harold Marsh Harwood...
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    Edmond Fleg, directed by Georges Pitoëff 1925: Le Lâche by Henri-René Lenormand, directed by Georges Pitoëff 1925: L'Assoiffé by A. Derera, directed by...
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