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1826 in France

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1826 in France

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Events from the year 1826 in France.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Charles X
  • Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle

Events

The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, c. 1826
  • 15 January - The newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly.
  • June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.
  • 19 August - Louis Christophe François Hachette purchases the Brédif bookshop on rue Pierre-Sarrazin, Paris, origin of the Hachette publishing business.
  • 3 November - The Paris Stock Exchange opens at the Palais de la Bourse.
  • Unknown date - Société alsacienne de constructions mécaniques founded; becomes part of Alstom, global railway rolling stock manufacturer.

Arts and literature

  • The second novel by Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, is published.

Births

  • 6 April - Gustave Moreau, painter (died 1898)
  • 5 May - Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoléon III (died 1920)
  • 18 May - Emile-Justin Menier, pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier and politician (died 1881)
  • 29 June - Charles Ernest Beulé, archaeologist and politician (died 1874)
  • 24 October - Léopold Victor Delisle, bibliophile and historian (died 1910)

Full date unknown

  • Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (died 1863)
  • Louis-Arsène Delaunay, actor (died 1903)

Deaths

  • 3 January
    • Marie Le Masson Le Golft, naturalist (born 1750)
    • Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (born 1770)
  • 22 January - Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, politician (born 1746)
  • 2 February - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician, epicure and gastronome (born 1755)
  • 1 July - Jean-Baptiste Stouf, sculptor (born 1742)
  • 8 October - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter (born 1768)
  • 5 November - Élie Halévy (Chalfan), Hebrew poet and author (born 1760)

References

References

  1. (1 January 1991). "Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand". SUNY Press.
  2. "Joseph, count de Villèle {{!}} French politician {{!}} Britannica".
  3. Bouvier, Béatrice. (2001). "Pour une histoire de l'architecture des librairies: le Quartier latin de 1793 à 1914". Livraisons d'Histoire de l'Architecture.
  4. Sirat, Jacques. (1998). "Braquenié: French Textiles and Interiors Since 1823". Antique Collectors Club Ltd.
  5. (July 1858). "The Bourse". Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine.
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