1819 in France
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Events from the year 1819 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 6 April–21 June - French slave ship Le Rodeur sails from Bonny in West Africa to Guadeloupe in the West Indies; in the course of the transatlantic voyage all onboard become blind, and slaves are thrown overboard as a consequence.[1]
Arts and literature
- Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse) is first exhibited at this year's Salon in Paris.
Births
January to June
- 10 January - Pierre Édouard Frère, painter (died 1886).
- 31 January - Jean-Augustin Barral, agronomist (died 1884).
- 7 February - Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (died 1897).
- 15 February - Louis Figuier, scientist and writer (died 1894).
- 1 March - François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, Archbishop of Paris (died 1908).
- 6 March - Émile Blanchard, zoologist and entomologist (died 1900).
- 4 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (died 1906).
- 19 April - Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (died 1904).
- 29 May - Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (died 1886).
- 10 June - Gustave Courbet, painter (died 1877).
- 28 June - Henri Harpignies, painter (died 1916).
July to September
- 2 July - Charles-Louis Hanon, piano pedagogue and composer (died 1900).
- 3 July - Théodore Gouvy, composer (died 1898).
- 22 July - Ernest Cosson, botanist (died 1889).
- 14 August - Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (died 1880).
- 26 August - Louis Adolphe Cochery, politician and journalist (died 1900).
- 15 September - Jules Etienne Pasdeloup, conductor (died 1887).
- 17 September - Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, actress (died 1897).
- 18 September - Léon Foucault, physicist (died 1868).
- 20 September - Théodore Chassériau, painter (died 1856).
- 21 September - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, Petite-Fille de France (died 1864).
- 23 September - Hippolyte Fizeau, physicist (died 1896).
- 28 September - Aimé Millet, sculptor (died 1891).
October to December
- 19 October - Ardant du Picq, Colonel and military theorist (died 1870).
- 19 November
- Émile Deschanel, author and politician (died 1904).
- Auguste Vacquerie, journalist and man of letters (died 1895).
- 22 December - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, mathematician (died 1892).
Full date unknown
- Nicolas Édouard Delabarre-Duparcq, military critic and historian (died 1893).
- Jules Eugène Lenepveu, painter (died 1898).
Deaths
January to June
- 10 January - Claude de Beauharnais, politician (born 1756).
- 12 January - André Morellet, economist and writer (born 1727).
- 25 January - Théodore-Pierre Bertin, writer, introduced modern shorthand to France (born 1751).
- 26 January - Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, historian and lawyer (born 1750).
- 16 February - Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, painter (born 1750).
- 17 February - Philippe Louis de Noailles, politician (born 1752).
- 11 March - Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély, politician (born 1761).
- 18 April - Georges Antoine Chabot, jurist and statesman (born 1758).
- 29 May - Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas, Navy officer and hero of the Battle of Trafalgar (born 1764).
- 3 June - Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Revolutionary figure (born 1756).
July to December
- 6 July - Sophie Blanchard, balloonist, first woman killed in an aviation accident (born 1778).
- 18 July - Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, geologist and traveller (born 1741).
- 1 August - Pierre-Adrien Pâris, architect, painter and designer (born 1745).
- 29 October - François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, novelist (born 1761).
- 24 December - Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Marshal of France (born 1742).
Full date unknown
- Charles-Honoré Lannuier, cabinetmaker in America (born 1779).
See also
References
- ^ "Western Africa". The Missionary Register. 9. London: Church Missionary Society: 284–5. July 1821.