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1840 in France

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Events from the year 1840 in France.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Louis Philippe I

Events

  • 20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
  • 1 March - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister.
  • 30 September - The frigate Belle Poule arrives in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, returning the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena. He is buried in Les Invalides.
  • Metric system again mandatory across France.

Arts and literature

  • 11 February - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.

Births

  • 23 March -Louis-Émile Bertin, naval engineer (died 1924)
  • 2 April - Émile Zola, novelist (died 1902)
  • 22 April - Odilon Redon, painter and printmaker (died 1916)
  • 13 May - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (died 1897)
  • 20 October - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (died 1909)
  • 12 November - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (died 1917)
  • 14 November - Claude Monet, Impressionist painter (died 1926)
  • 1 December - Marie Bracquemond, Impressionist painter (died 1916)

Deaths

  • 13 February - Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (born 1770)
  • 27 February - John Tessier, French Sulpician priest (born 1758)
  • 22 March - Étienne Bobillier, mathematician (born 1798)
  • 25 April - Siméon Denis Poisson, mathematician and physicist (born 1781)
  • 7 June - Népomucène Lemercier, poet and dramatist (born 1771)
  • 20 June - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, painter and botanist (born 1759)
  • 7 September - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, Marshal of France (born 1765)

References

References

  1. "Claude Monet {{!}} Biography, Art, Water Lilies, Haystacks, Impression: Sunrise, & Facts {{!}} Britannica".
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