1840 in France

1840 in France

"See also:"
1839 in France,
other events of 1840,
1841 in France.

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Events from the year 1840 in France.

Events

*20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
*1 March - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister.
*30 September - The frigate "Belle-Poule" arrives in Cherbourg, bringing back the remains of Napoléon from Saint Helena. He is buried in the Invalides.

Arts and Literature

*11 February - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Fille du Regiment" premieres in Paris.

Births

*2 April - Émile Zola, writer (d.1902).
*22 April - Odilon Redon, painter and printmaker (d.1916).
*13 May - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (d.1897).
*20 October - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (d.1909).
*12 November - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (d.1917).
*14 November - Claude Monet, painter (d.1926).

Full date unknown

*Louis-Émile Bertin, naval engineer (d.1924).

Deaths

*13 February - Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (b.1770).
*22 March - Étienne Bobillier, mathematician (b.1798).
*25 April - Siméon Denis Poisson, mathematician and physicist (b.1781).
*7 June - Népomucène Lemercier, poet and dramatist (b.1771).
*20 June - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, painter and botanist (b.1759).
*7 September - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, Marshal of France (b.1765).

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