1819 in France

"See also:"
1818 in France,
other events of 1819,
1820 in France.

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Events from the year 1819 in France.

Events

Births

January to June

*1 March - François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, Archbishop of Paris (d.1908).
*6 March - Émile Blanchard, zoologist and entomologist (d.1900).
*4 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (d.1906).
*29 May - Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (d.1886).
*10 June - Gustave Courbet, painter (d.1877).
*28 June - Henri Harpignies, painter (d.1916).

July to September

*2 July - Charles-Louis Hanon, piano pedagogue and composer (d.1900).
*3 July - Louis Théodore Gouvy, composer (d.1898).
*22 July - Ernest Cosson, botanist (d.1889).
*14 August - Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (d.1880).
*26 August - Louis Adolphe Cochery, politician and journalist (d.1900).
*15 September - Jules Etienne Pasdeloup, conductor (d.1887).
*17 September - Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, actress (d.1897).
*18 September - Léon Foucault, physicist (d.1868).
*20 September - Théodore Chassériau, painter (d.1856).
*21 September - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, Petite-Fille de France (d.1864).
*28 September - Aimé Millet, sculptor (d.1891).

October to December

*19 October - Ardant du Picq, Colonel and military theorist (d.1870).
*19 November - Émile Deschanel, author and politician (d.1904).
*19 November - Auguste Vacquerie, journalist and man of letters (d.1895).
*22 December - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, mathematician (d.1892).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Augustin Barral, agronomist (d.1884).
*Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (d.1904).
*Nicolas Édouard Delabarre-Duparcq, military critic and historian (d.1893).
*Louis Figuier, scientist and writer (d.1894).
*Hippolyte Fizeau, physicist (d.1896).
*Pierre Edouard Frere, painter (d.1886).
*Jules Eugène Lenepveu, painter (d.1898).
*Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (d.1897).

Deaths

January to June

*10 January - Claude de Beauharnais, politician (b.1756).
*12 January - André Morellet, economist and writer (b.1727).
*25 January - Théodore-Pierre Bertin, writer, introduced modern shorthand to France (b.1751).
*16 February - Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, painter (b.1750).
*February - Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles, 1st duc de Mouchy, politician (b.1752).
*11 March - Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély, politician (b.1761).
*29 May - Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas, Navy officer and hero of the Battle of Trafalgar (b.1764).
*3 June - Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Revolutionary figure (b.1756).

July to December

*6 July - Sophie Blanchard, balloonist, first woman killed in an aviation accident (b.1778).
*18 July - Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, geologist and traveller (b.1741).
*29 October - François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, novelist (b.1761).
*24 December - Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Marshal of France (b.1742).

Full date unknown

*Georges Antoine Chabot, jurist and statesman (b.1758).
*Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel, General (b.1714).
*Charles-Honoré Lannuier, cabinetmaker in America (b.1779).
*Pierre-Adrien Pâris, architect, painter and designer (b.1745).
*Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, historian and lawyer (b.1750).

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