1819 in France
Events from the year 1819 in France.
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See also: | Other events of 1819 History of France • Timeline • Years |
Incumbents
- Monarch – Louis XVIII[1]
- Prime Minister – Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles (until 19 November), then Élie, duc Decazes[2]
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.[3]
- May: enactment of the Serre laws, which governed press freedom for much of the nineteenth century[4]
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
- Strieter, Terry W. (1999). Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-313-29898-1.
- Dwyer, Philip G. (17 September 2016). Talleyrand. Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-317-88183-4.
- "Western Africa". The Missionary Register. London: Church Missionary Society. 9: 284–5. July 1821.
- Haynes, Christine (2010). Lost illusions: the politics of publishing in nineteenth-century France. Harvard historical studies. Vol. 167. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03576-8.
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