biography
| name: |
Blanchard, Jean Pierre François
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pronunciation:
[blãshah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1753–1809)
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| biography:
| Balloonist, and inventor of the parachute, born in Les Andelys, NW France. With John Jeffries he was the first to cross the English Channel by balloon, from Dover to Calais, in 1785. He was killed during practice parachute jumps from a balloon. |
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