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1840 in France
1840 in France
See also:1839 in France,other events of 1840,1841 in France.----Events from the year 1840 in France.-Events:*20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.*1 March - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister....
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1842 in France
1842 in France
See also:1841 in France,other events of 1842,1843 in France.----Events from the year 1842 in France.-Events:*8 May - Versailles train crash at Meudon, results in the deaths of at least 55 passengers.*9 July - Legislative election held....
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Events from the year 1841 in France
France
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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Births
- 7 January - Bernadette SoubirousBernadette SoubirousSaint Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was a miller's daughter born in Lourdes. From 11 February to 16 July 1858, she reported 18 apparitions of "a small young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at that site at Lourdes....
, reported apparitions at LourdesLourdesLourdes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in south-western France.Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes occurred in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous...
(d.18791879 in FranceSee also:1878 in France,other events of 1879,1880 in France.----Events from the year 1879 in France.-Events:*1 June - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial , great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, Bonapartist Pretender to the throne, died in Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War.*Ferdinand Cheval begins to...
). - 14 January - Berthe MorisotBerthe MorisotBerthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.In 1864, she exhibited for the first...
, painter (d.18951895 in FranceSee also:1894 in France,other events of 1895,1896 in France.----Events from the year 1895 in France.-Events:*5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris....
). - 30 January - Félix FaureFélix FaureFélix François Faure was President of France from 1895 until his death.-Biography:Félix François Faure was born in Paris, the son of a small furniture maker...
, President of France (d.18991899 in FranceSee also:1898 in France,other events of 1899,1900 in France.----Events from the year 1899 in France.-Events:*16 April - Battle of Lougou, French victory in Niger....
). - 25 February - Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to...
, painter (d.19191919 in FranceSee also:1918 in France,other events of 1919,1920 in France.----Events from the year 1919 in France.-Events:*April - Long-Berenger Oil Agreement is concluded between France and the United Kingdom over oil rights....
). - 2 April - Clément AderClément AderClément Ader was a French inventor and engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne, and is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation.- The inventor :...
, engineer and aviation pioneer (d.19251925 in FranceSee also:1924 in France,other events of 1925,1926 in France.----Events from the year 1925 in France.-Events:*21 May to 25 october International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in Grenoble....
). - 13 April - Louis-Ernest BarriasLouis-Ernest BarriasLouis-Ernest Barrias was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school.He was born in Paris into a family of artists. His father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother Félix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter...
, sculptor (d.19051905 in FranceSee also:1904 in France,other events of 1905,1906 in France.----Events from the year 1905 in France.-Events:*31 March - German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis....
). - 28 September - Georges ClemenceauGeorges ClemenceauGeorges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles at the...
, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (d.19291929 in FranceSee also:1928 in France,other events of 1929,1930 in France.----Events from the year 1929 in France.-Events:*24 July - Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by Aristide Briand....
). - 6 November - Armand FallièresArmand FallièresClément Armand Fallières was a French politician, president of the French republic from 1906 to 1913.He was born at Mézin in the département of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of the peace...
, politician and President of France (d.19311931 in FranceSee also:1930 in France,other events of 1931,1932 in France.----Events from the year 1931 in France.-Events:*27 January - Pierre Laval forms a government in France....
). - 6 December - Frédéric BazilleFrédéric BazilleJean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air....
, painter (d.18701870 in FranceSee also:1869 in France,other events of 1870,1871 in France.----Events from the year 1870 in France.-Events:*20 April - Constitutional referendum reaffirmed the status of the Second French Empire....
). - 20 December - Ferdinand BuissonFerdinand BuissonFerdinand Édouard Buisson was a French academic, educational bureaucrat, pacifist and Socialist politician...
, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace PrizeNobel Peace PrizeThe Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
in 1927 (d.19321932 in FranceSee also:1931 in France,other events of 1932,1933 in France.----Events from the year 1932 in France.-Events:*1 May - Legislative Election held.*6 May - Paul Gorguloff assassinates President Paul Doumer in Paris...
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- Marie BracquemondMarie BracquemondMarie Bracquemond was a French Impressionist artist described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. However, her frequent omission from books on women artists indicate the success of her husband, Félix...
, artist (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....
). - Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-MezinCharles Jean Baptiste Collin-MezinCharles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin was a distinguished French maker of violins, violas, cellos, basses and bows. He was an Officier de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts and won gold and silver medals at the Paris Exhibitions in 1878, 1889, and 1900....
, maker of violins, violas, cellos, basses and bows (d.19231923 in FranceSee also:1922 in France,other events of 1923,1924 in France.----Events from the year 1923 in France.-Events:*11 January - Occupation of the Ruhr begins by French and Belgian troops to force Germany to pay its reparation payments....
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Deaths
- 13 January - Bertrand Barère de VieuzacBertrand Barère de VieuzacBertrand Barère de Vieuzac was a French politician and journalist, one of the most notorious members of the National Convention during the French Revolution.-Early career:He was born at Tarbes in Gascony...
, politician and journalist (b.1755). - 23 February - Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de ForbinLouis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de ForbinLouis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, comte de Forbin was the French painter and antiquary who succeeded Vivant-Denon as curator of the Musée du Louvre and the other museums of France....
, painter and antiquary (b.1779). - 1 March - Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de BellunoClaude Victor-Perrin, duc de BellunoClaude Victor-Perrin, First Duc de Belluno was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
, 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.1764). - 28 April - Peter ChanelPeter ChanelPierre Louis Marie Chanel, known in English as Saint Peter Chanel was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr.-Early years:Chanel was born in La Potière near Cuet in the area of Belley, Ain département, France....
, priest, missionary, martyr and saint (b.18031803 in FranceSee also:1802 in France,other events of 1803,1804 in France.----Events from the year 1803 in France.-Events:*30 January - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase....
). - 23 June - Étienne Joseph Louis Garnier-PagèsÉtienne Joseph Louis Garnier-PagèsÉtienne Joseph Louis Garnier-Pagès was a French politician, born at Marseille.Soon after his birth his father Jean Francois Garnier, a naval surgeon, died, and his mother married Simon Pagès, a college professor, by whom she had a son...
, politician (b.18011801 in FranceSee also:1800 in France,other events of 1801,1802 in France.----Events from the year 1801 in France.-Events:*9 February - Treaty of Lunéville signed between the French First Republic and the Holy Roman Empire, ending the war with Austria....
). - 9 November - Jean Victoire AudouinJean Victoire Audouinthumb|Victor AudouinJean Victoire Audouin , sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, ornithologist and malacologist.Audouin was born in Paris and studied medicine...
, naturalistNatural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
, entomologist and ornithologist (b.17971797 in FranceSee also:1796 in France,other events of 1797,1798 in France.----Events from the year 1797 in France.-Events:*14 January-15 January - Battle of Rivoli, decisive French victory over Austria....
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- Nicolas AppertNicolas AppertNicolas Appert , was the French inventor of airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the "father of canning", was a confectioner.-Biography:...
, confectioner, inventor of airtight food preservation (b.1749). - Louis Pierre Edouard, Baron BignonLouis Pierre Edouard, Baron BignonLouis Pierre Edouard, Baron Bignon was a French diplomat and historian.-Biography:Louis de Bignon was born at Rouen, Seine-Maritime, the son of a dyer. Although he had received a good education, he served throughout the early part of the French Revolutionary Wars without rising above the rank of...
, diplomat and historian (b.1771). - Alexandre-Hyacinthe DunouyAlexandre-Hyacinthe DunouyAlexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy was a French painter known for his landscapes.A native of Paris, Dunouy began his career depicting views of the city and the surrounding region, exhibiting at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1791. exhibited views of the area around Rome and Naples; he showed...
, painter (b.1757). - Etienne Félix d'Henin de CuvillersEtienne Félix d'Henin de CuvillersEtienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers was a French "magnetist" who was an early practitioner of mesmerism as a scientific discipline.Hénin de Cuvillers was a follower of Franz Anton Mesmer . However, unlike Mesmer he did not believe in the existence of a "magnetic fluid" in animal magnetism, and...
, practitioner of mesmerism as a scientific discipline (b.1755). - François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-DesmalterFrançois-Honoré-Georges Jacob-DesmalterFrançois-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter oversaw one of the most successful and influential furniture workshops in Paris, from 1796 to 1825...
, furniture maker (b.1770).