1849 in France

See also: 1848 in France, other events of 1849, 1850 in France.

Events from the year 1849 in France.

Events

• 1 January - France's first postage stamp, Ceres, is issued.
• 27 April - Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Rome to defend it from the French troops of General Oudinot.
• 13 May - Legislative election held.
• 3 July - French troops occupy Rome. Roman Republic surrenders.

Births

• 12 January - Jean Béraud, painter and commercial artist (d.1935).
• 8 February - Henri Amédée de Broglie, nobleman (d.1917).
• 21 February - Edouard Deville, first to perfect a practical method of photogrammetry (d.1924).
• 4 April - Félix Balzer, physician (d.1929).
• 2 June - Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (d.1934).
• 3 July - Prosper-René Blondlot, physicist (d.1930).
• 19 July - François Victor Alphonse Aulard, historian (d.1928).
• 19 July - Ferdinand Brunetière, writer and critic (d.1906).
• 3 August - Joseph Jules Dejerine, neurologist (d.1917).
• 18 August - Benjamin Godard, violinist and composer (d.1895).

Full date unknown

• Théobald Chartran, painter (d.1907).

Deaths

• 13 April - Théophile Marion Dumersan, writer and numismatist (b.1780).
• 28 April - René-Primevère Lesson, surgeon and naturalist (b.1794).
• 11 May - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, leader of the literary and political circles (b.1777).
• 10 June - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria (b.1784).
• 26 August - Jacques Féréol Mazas, composer, conductor and violinist (b.1782).
• 12 November - Alexis-François Artaud De Montor, diplomat and historian (b.1772).
• 21 November - François Marius Granet, painter (b.1777).
• 27 December - Jacques-Laurent Agasse, painter (b.1767).

Full date unknown

• Philippe-Frédéric Blandin, physician and surgeon (b.1798).
• Quatremère de Quincy, archaeologist and writer on art (b.1755).

References