 She was the niece of André-Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823).Her uncle made his first parachute jump from a balloon in the Parc Monceau on 22 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 from a balloon caused so much public excitement that from then on no great official festival was complete without a jump by Jacques Garnerin, the official "aérostier des fêtes publiques".