1820 in France

See also: 1819 in France, other events of 1820, 1821 in France.

Events from the year 1820 in France.

Events

• 14 February - Dukes of Berry, the nephew of the king is assassinated by a fanatic Elie Decazes is held indirectly for the crime by the royalists and is forced to resign from the government
• 4 November - Legislative election held.
• 13 November - Legislative election held.

Births

• 16 January - Pierre Louis Rouillard, sculptor (d.1881).
• 20 January - Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, geologist and mineralogist (d.1886).
• 20 February - Gustave Nadaud, songwriter and chansonnier (d.1893).
• 30 April - Edouard Louis Dubufe, painter (d.1883).
• 11 June - Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (d.1902).
• 17 September - Émile Augier, dramatist (d.1889).
• 29 September - Henry, Count of Chambord, Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France (d.1883).
• 24 October - Eugène Fromentin, painter and writer (d.1876).
• 8 November - Hippolyte Castille, writer (d.1886).

Full date unknown

• Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne, historian (d.1882).
• Léon Fairmaire, entomologist (d.1906).
• Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, historian (d.1895).
• Ernest de Jonquières, mathematician (d.1901).
• Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (d.1888).
• Auguste Sallé, traveller and entomologist (d.1896).

Deaths

January to June

• 9 January - Charles-Louis Clérisseau, architectural draughtsman, antiquary, and artist (b.1721).
• 21 January - Palisot de Beauvois, naturalist (b.1752).
• 15 February - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, statesman (b.1756).
• 26 March - Jean-Étienne Despréaux, ballet dancer, choreographer, composer, singer and playwright (b.1748).
• 25 April - Constantin-François Chassebœuf, philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (b.1757).
• 21 June - Alexis Thérèse Petit, physicist (b.1791).

July to December

• 14 September - François Joseph Lefebvre, Marshal of France (b.1755).
• 5 October - Augustin Barruel, Jesuit priest and writer (b.1741).
• 16 November - Jean-Lambert Tallien, political figure (b.1767).
• 7 December - Denis Decrès, naval officer and nobleman (b.1761).
• 25 December - Joseph Fouché, statesman and Minister (b.1763).
• 29 December - Jean Baptiste Antoine Auget de Montyon, philanthropist (b.1733).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Denys de Montfort, naturalist (b.1766).
• Jean-Baptiste Robinet, naturalist (b.1735).
• Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, painter (b.1747).

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