1819 in France

See also: 1818 in France, other events of 1819, 1820 in France.

Events from the year 1819 in France.

Events

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Births

January to June

• 1 March - François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, Archbishop of Paris (d.1908).
• 6 March - Émile Blanchard, zoologist and entomologist (d.1900).
• 4 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (d.1906).
• 29 May - Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (d.1886).
• 10 June - Gustave Courbet, painter (d.1877).
• 28 June - Henri Harpignies, painter (d.1916).

July to September

• 2 July - Charles-Louis Hanon, piano pedagogue and composer (d.1900).
• 3 July - Louis Théodore Gouvy, composer (d.1898).
• 22 July - Ernest Cosson, botanist (d.1889).
• 14 August - Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (d.1880).
• 26 August - Louis Adolphe Cochery, politician and journalist (d.1900).
• 15 September - Jules Etienne Pasdeloup, conductor (d.1887).
• 17 September - Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, actress (d.1897).
• 18 September - Léon Foucault, physicist (d.1868).
• 20 September - Théodore Chassériau, painter (d.1856).
• 21 September - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, Petite-Fille de France (d.1864).
• 28 September - Aimé Millet, sculptor (d.1891).

October to December

• 19 October - Ardant du Picq, Colonel and military theorist (d.1870).
• 19 November - Émile Deschanel, author and politician (d.1904).
• 19 November - Auguste Vacquerie, journalist and man of letters (d.1895).
• 22 December - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, mathematician (d.1892).

Full date unknown

• Jean-Augustin Barral, agronomist (d.1884).
• Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (d.1904).
• Nicolas Édouard Delabarre-Duparcq, military critic and historian (d.1893).
• Louis Figuier, scientist and writer (d.1894).
• Hippolyte Fizeau, physicist (d.1896).
• Pierre Edouard Frere, painter (d.1886).
• Jules Eugène Lenepveu, painter (d.1898).
• Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (d.1897).

Deaths

January to June

• 10 January - Claude de Beauharnais, politician (b.1756).
• 12 January - André Morellet, economist and writer (b.1727).
• 25 January - Théodore-Pierre Bertin, writer, introduced modern shorthand to France (b.1751).
• 16 February - Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, painter (b.1750).
• February - Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles, 1st duc de Mouchy, politician (b.1752).
• 11 March - Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély, politician (b.1761).
• 29 May - Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas, Navy officer and hero of the Battle of Trafalgar (b.1764).
• 3 June - Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Revolutionary figure (b.1756).

July to December

• 6 July - Sophie Blanchard, balloonist, first woman killed in an aviation accident (b.1778).
• 18 July - Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, geologist and traveller (b.1741).
• 29 October - François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, novelist (b.1761).
• 24 December - Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Marshal of France (b.1742).

Full date unknown

• Georges Antoine Chabot, jurist and statesman (b.1758).
• Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel, General (b.1714).
• Charles-Honoré Lannuier, cabinetmaker in America (b.1779).
• Pierre-Adrien Pâris, architect, painter and designer (b.1745).
• Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, historian and lawyer (b.1750).

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