1803 in France

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Events from the year 1803 in France.

Events

• 30 January
  • Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
  • Napoleon authorizes the celebration of a Joan of Arc feast in Orléans on 8 May.
• 30 April - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
• May - The First Consul of France Citizen Bonaparte begins making preparations to invade England.
• 18 May - The United Kingdom redeclares war on France, after French refuse to withdraw from Dutch territory.
• 5 July - Convention of Artlenburg, the surrender of the Electorate of Hanover to Napoleon's army.
• 18 November - Haitian Revolution: Battle of Vertières, decisive Haitian victory over the French colonial army.

Births

January to June

• 16 February - Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, politician (died 1878).
• 3 March - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (died 1860).
• 15 March - Alexandre Boreau, pharmacist and botanist (died 1875).
• 7 April - Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist (died 1844).
• 24 May - Charles Lucien Bonaparte, naturalist and ornithologist (died 1857).

July to December

• 22 July - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (died 1886).
• 24 July - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (died 1856).
• 8 September - Léon Faucher, politician and economist (died 1854).
• 12 September - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet (died 1858).
• 13 September - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist (died 1847).
• 23 September - Jacques Crétineau-Joly, journalist and historian (died 1875).
• 28 September - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (died 1886).
• 28 September - Prosper Mérimée, dramatist, historian and archaeologist (died 1870).
• 11 December - Hector Berlioz, composer (died 1869).
• 24 December - Jean-Rémy Bessieux, founder of Roman Catholic mission in Gabon and first Bishop there (died 1876).

Full date unknown

• Jean Étienne Bercé, entomologist (died 1879).
• Hélène Jégado, domestic servant and serial killer, executed (died 1852).

Deaths

January to June

• 18 January - Sylvain Maréchal, essayist, poet and philosopher (born 1750).
• 29 January - La Clairon, actress (born 1723).
• 9 February - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, poet (born 1716).
• 11 February - Jean-François de La Harpe, playwright, writer and critic (born 1739).
• 16 February - Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, Cardinal (born 1734).
• 20 February - Marie Dumesnil, actress (born 1713).
• 4 March - Madame de Marsan, Royal children's governess (born 1720).
• 24 April - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, painter (born 1749).
• April - Louis François Antoine Arbogast, mathematician (born 1759).
• 29 May - Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, writer, poet, historian and biographer (born 1719).
• 6 June - Louis Gallodier, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. c1734).

July to December

• 16 August - Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan, writer (born 1736).
• 5 September
  • François Devienne, composer and flautist (born 1759).
  • Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, General and novelist (born 1741).
• 7 October - Pierre Vachon, composer (born 1731).
• 12 October - Jacques Gamelin, painter and engraver (born 1738).
• 7 November - Pierre Brugière, priest and Jansenist (born 1730).
• 27 November - Antoine Guenée, priest and Christian apologist (born 1717).