1818 in France

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1818
in
France

Decades:
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
See also:Other events of 1818
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Events from the year 1818 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchLouis XVIII

Events[]

  • 11 February - Marie André Cantillon attempts to assassinate the Duke of Wellington in Paris.
  • 29 July - Physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light" to the French Academy of Sciences, precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
  • 1 October - Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle is convened.
  • 5 October - Claudine Thévenet (known as Mary of St. Ignatius) founds the Roman Catholic order Religieuses de Jésus-Marie ("Religious of Jesus And Mary") in Lyon.

Births[]

January to June[]

July to December[]

  • 8 August - Joseph Roumanille, poet (died 1891).
  • 12 August - Edmond-Frederic Le Blant, archaeologist and historian (died 1897).
  • 14 August - François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville, admiral (died 1900).
  • 18 August - Henri Le Secq, painter and photographer (died 1882).
  • 13 September - Gustave Aimard, traveller and writer (died 1883).
  • 26 October - Louis Buffet, statesman (died 1898).

Full date unknown[]

  • Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot, naturalist and entomologist (died 1893).
  • Denis Vrain-Lucas, forger (died 1880).

Deaths[]

See also[]

References[]

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