1816 in France
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Events from the year 1816 in France
Incumbents[]
- Monarch – Louis XVIII
- Prime Minister – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
Events[]
- 2 July – French frigate Méduse (1810) runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
- 25 September and 4 October – 1816 French legislative election.
Arts and culture[]
- The Académie des Beaux-Arts established
Finance[]
- Caisse des dépôts et consignations established
Births[]
- 18 February – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (died 1913)
- 19 February – Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, inventor and engineer (died 1889)
- 14 July – Arthur de Gobineau, aristocrat, novelist, diplomat, travel writer and racist theorist (died 1882 in Italy)
- 4 September – François Bazin, opera composer (died 1878)
- 29 September – Paul Féval, père, novelist and dramatist (died 1887)
Deaths[]
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Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau is credited with producing the first systematic method of chemical nomenclature.
- 2 January – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, chemist and politician (born 1737)
- 16 January – Jacques-René Tenon, surgeon (born 1724)
- 31 March – Jean-François Ducis, dramatist (born 1733).[1]
- 8 April – Julie Billiart, religious leader (born 1751)
- 28 April – Edme Mentelle, geographer (born 1730)
- 4 May – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (born 1743)
- 7 June – Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral, clergyman (born 1746)
- 4 August – François-André Vincent, painter (born 1746)
- 7 August – François-Joseph Duret, sculptor (born 1729)
- 30 September – Joseph Caillot, actor and singer (born 1733)
- 18 October – Claude Dejoux, sculptor (born 1732)
- 21 December – Jean-Pierre-André Amar, politician (born 1755)
Exact date missing[]
- François-Guillaume Ménageot, painter (born 1744)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Ducis, Jean François". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 478. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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