1819 in France

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Events from the year 1819 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XVIII

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.

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).