1840 in France
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1839 in France
1839 in France
See also:1838 in France,other events of 1839,1840 in France.----Events from the year 1839 in France.-Events:*9 January - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.*2 March - Legislative election held....
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other events of 1840,
1841 in France
1841 in France
See also:1840 in France,other events of 1841,1842 in France.----Events from the year 1841 in France.-Births:*7 January - Bernadette Soubirous, reported apparitions at Lourdes .*14 January - Berthe Morisot, painter ....
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Events from the year 1840 in France
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The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Events
- 20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie LandAdélie LandAdélie Land is the portion of the Antarctic coast between 136° E and 142° E , with a shore length of 350 km and with its hinterland extending as a sector about 2,600 km toward the South Pole. It is claimed by France as one of five districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, although not...
, Antarctica. - 1 March - Adolphe ThiersAdolphe ThiersMarie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French politician and historian. was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871...
becomes prime minister. - 30 September - The frigate Belle-PouleFrench ship Belle Poule (1828)The Belle-Poule was a 60-gun frigate of the French Navy, famous for bringing the remains of Napoléon from Saint Helena back to France in what became known as the retour des cendres....
arrives in Cherbourg, bringing back the remains of Napoléon from Saint HelenaSaint HelenaSaint Helena , named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Ascension Island and the islands of Tristan da Cunha...
. He is buried in the Invalides.
Arts and literature
- 11 February - Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
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Births
- 2 April - Émile ZolaÉmile ZolaÉmile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...
, writer (d.19021902 in FranceSee also:1901 in France,other events of 1902,1903 in France.----Events from the year 1902 in France.-Events:*13 April - A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.*27 April - Legislative Election held....
). - 22 April - Odilon RedonOdilon RedonBertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.-Life:...
, painter and printmaker (d.19161916 in FranceSee also:1915 in France,other events of 1916,1917 in France.----Events from the year 1916 in France.-Events:*29 January - Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.*21 February - Battle of Verdun begins....
). - 13 May - Alphonse DaudetAlphonse DaudetAlphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.- Early life :Alphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. The father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer — a man dogged through life by misfortune...
, novelist (d.18971897 in FranceSee also:1896 in France,other events of 1897,1898 in France.----Events from the year 1897 in France.-Events:*9 December - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand.-Arts and literature:...
). - 20 October - Désiré-Magloire BournevilleDésiré-Magloire BournevilleDésiré-Magloire Bourneville was a French neurologist born in Garencières. He studied medicine in Paris, and was an intern at the Salpêtrière and Bicêtre Hospitals....
, neurologist (d.19091909 in FranceSee also:1908 in France,other events of 1909,1910 in France.----Events from the year 1909 in France.-Events:*20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in Le Figaro....
). - 12 November - Auguste RodinAuguste RodinFrançois-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...
, sculptor (d.19171917 in FranceSee also:1916 in France,other events of 1917,1918 in France.----Events from the year 1917 in France.-Events:*9 April - Battle of Arras, a British offensive, begins....
). - 14 November - Claude MonetClaude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
, painter (d.19261926 in FranceSee also:1925 in France,other events of 1926,1927 in France.----Events from the year 1926 in France.-Events:*9 May - French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots....
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Deaths
- 13 February - Nicolas Joseph MaisonNicolas Joseph MaisonNicolas Joseph Maison, 1er Marquis Maison was a Marshal of France and Minister of War.-French revolution and Napoléon:Maison was born at born in Épinay-sur-Seine, near Paris....
, Marshal of FranceMarshal of FranceThe Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...
and Minister of War (b.1770). - 22 March - Étienne BobillierÉtienne BobillierÉtienne Bobillier was a French mathematician.He was born in Lons-le-Saunier, France. At the age of 19 he was accepted into the École Polytechnique and studied there for a year. However, due to a shortage of money, in 1818 he became an instructor in mathematics at the École des Arts et Métiers in...
, mathematician (b.17981798 in FranceSee also:1797 in France,other events of 1798,1799 in France.----Events from the year 1798 in France.-Events:*10 February - The Papacy is removed from power by the French General Louis Alexandre Berthier....
). - 25 April - Siméon Denis PoissonSiméon Denis PoissonSiméon Denis Poisson , was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist. He however, was the final leading opponent of the wave theory of light as a member of the elite l'Académie française, but was proven wrong by Augustin-Jean Fresnel.-Biography:...
, mathematician and physicist (b.1781). - 7 June - Népomucène LemercierNépomucène LemercierLouis Jean Népomucène Lemercier was a French poet and dramatist.He was born in Paris. His father had been intendant successively to the duc de Penthièvre, the comte de Toulouse and the unfortunate princesse de Lamballe, who was the boy's godmother...
, poet and dramatist (b.1771). - 20 June - Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
, painter and botanist (b.1759). - 7 September - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonaldÉtienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonaldÉtienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald, 1st duke of Taranto was a Marshal of France and military leader during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.-Family background:...
, Marshal of FranceMarshal of FranceThe Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...
(b.1765).