Édith Georgette Valentine Boiteux was born on June 5, 1904 in Cuffy, Cher.
She holds the record for the lowest altitude parachute jump, having jumped from the dome of the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris, just fifteen meters above the ground. She only had time to open her parachute before recovering. She was performing in a show, making parachute jumps into a cage for lions, who were frightened by the sudden arrival of her parachute. In 1931, in Bucharest, she made a jump from the top of a fireman's ladder, from a height of almost 27 meters.
Édith regularly accompanied Madeleine Charnaux in her attempts to break altitude records. She declared that what she liked best “was to stay in the plane until landing, which rarely happened in her career as a ‘jumper’, since she was only in the aircraft for the first half of the flight”. On January 29, 1935 at Orly, she took part in the women's altitude record for light aircraft as Madeleine Charnaux's passenger, reaching 6,115 meters.
In 1936, when the parachutist's license had just been created, she became the first woman to obtain it, thus officially becoming a professional parachutist.
Edith Clark died on March 16, 1937.
