1823 in France

"See also:"
1822 in France,
other events of 1823,
1824 in France.

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Events from the year 1823 in France.

Events

*17 April - French forces, authorised by the Congress of Verona, enter Spain following the capture of Ferdinand VII of Spain by armed revolutionary liberals.
*23 May - Rebel government withdraws from Madrid to Seville following French attacks.
*31 August - French forces take the besieged fort at Cadiz in the Battle of Trocadero.

Arts and Literature

*The first novel by Victor Hugo, "Han d'Islande", is published.

Births

January to June

*27 January - Édouard Lalo, composer (d.1892).
*28 February - Ernest Renan, philosopher and writer (d.1892).
*14 March - Théodore de Banville, poet and writer (d.1891).
*18 March - Antoine Chanzy, general and governor of Algeria (d.1883).
*21 March - Jules Émile Planchon, botanist (d.1888).
*13 April - Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux, literary scholar (d.1899).
*21 June - Jean Chacornac, astronomer (d.1873).

July to December

*12 July - Jacques-Léonard Maillet, sculptor (d.1894).
*15 August - Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier, classical scholar (d.1908).
*8 October - Louis-Frédéric Brugère, professor of apologetics and church history (d.1888).
*21 October - Edme-Armand-Gaston d'Audiffret-Pasquier, politician (d.1905).

Full date unknown

*Jules Adenis, dramatist and opera librettist (d.1900).
*Theodore Barrière, dramatist (d.1877).
*Antoine Fauchery, photographer (d.1862).
*Casimir Marie Gaudibert, astronomer and selenographer (d.1901).
*Louis Gustave Ricard, painter (d.1873).

Deaths

January to June

*3 January - Jean Joseph Amable Humbert, general, led a failed invasion of Ireland (b.1755).
*16 February - Pierre Paul Prud'hon, painter and draughtsman (b.1758).
*1 March - Pierre-Jean Garat, opera singer (b.1764).
*14 March - Charles François Dumouriez, general (b.1739).
*18 March - Jean-Baptiste Bréval, cellist and composer (b.1753).
*27 March - Jacques-Michel Hurel de Lamare, cellist (b.1772).
*1 June - Louis-Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (b.1770).
*27 June - Pierre Antoine Delalande, naturalist and explorer (b.1787).

July to December

*2 August - Lazare Carnot, politician, engineer, and mathematician (b.1753).
*18 August - André-Jacques Garnerin, inventor of the frameless parachute (b.1769).
*18 November - Jean-Nicolas Pache, politician (b.1746).

Full date unknown

*Antoine-François Callet, painter (b.1741).
*Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet, statesman and peer (b.1766).

References