1826 in France

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Events from the year 1826 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles X

Events

The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, c. 1826

• 15 January - The newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly.
• June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.
• The Hachette publishing business in Paris is established by Louis Christophe François Hachette.

Arts and literature

• The second novel by Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, is published.

Births

• 6 April - Gustave Moreau, painter (died 1898).
• 5 May - Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoléon III (died 1920).
• 18 May - Emile-Justin Menier, pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician (died 1881).
• 29 June - Charles Ernest Beulé, archaeologist and politician (died 1874).
• 24 October - Léopold Victor Delisle, bibliophile and historian (died 1910).

Full date unknown

• Louis Arsene Delaunay, actor (died 1903).

Deaths

• 3 January - Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (born 1770).
• 2 February - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician, epicure and gastronome (born 1755).
• 8 October - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter (born 1768).
• 5 November - Élie Halévy (Chalfan), Hebrew poet and author (born 1760).

Full date unknown

• Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, politician (born 1746).
• Jean-Baptiste Stouf, sculptor (born 1742).