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Andre Jacques Garnerin, French aeronaut and the first parachutist Product:Framed picture Buste de femme en costumeAndre Jacques Garnerin, French aeronaut and the first parachutist, c1800 (1910). Garnerin (1769 1823) became a balloon inspector in the French Army in 1793. In Paris in 1797, he performed the first public exhibition of a parachute jump from a free flying balloon, descending 3200 feet. He was the first aeronaut to parachute regularly. He often worked with his brother, Jean Baptiste Olivier Garnerin. Illustration from The Connoisseur, (August 1910).