Andre-Guillaume Resnier
Andre-Guillaume Resnier (Angouleme, July 30th, 1729 - Angouleme, February 2nd, 1811) was a Général French. He is one of the pioneers of the Gliding.
Wire of Nicolas, clerk as a chief of the seneschalsy and seat présidial of Angoumois and Marguerite Thevet of Combedière, it engages like teaches with the regiment of Rouergue in 1745. It then passes to the body genius . Captain with the regiment of Vermandois, it was extraordinary embassy of king de France with Moulay-Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco in 1766.
He took part in all the campaigns of the royal army and the army of the Republic. Shown of Nobility, it was relieved in 1794 but was reinstated three months later in its rank and was recalled to the service. Put at the retirement of Brigadier general on September 20th 1796 and not having been able to obtain a housing among the veterans with Paris, it settled then in its birthplace.
In 1806, its first test of flapping flight success was not crowned. Springing parapet of Beaulieu, it jumps into space by agitating the wings in wire covered with waxed taffeta. It does nothing but descend rock in rock.
The second attempt is worth to him a bath forced in the Charente. Left the bridge, high 5 meters, connecting the district Saint-Cybard to Angouleme, it falls into water at the end of 50 meters from vol.
Finally its third and last test are a success. He traverses 300 meters by springing top of the ramparts of the city and breaks only one leg on arrival.
He dies in Angouleme on February 2nd 1811.
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