1842 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis Philippe I

Events

• 8 May – Versailles train crash at Meudon, results in the deaths of at least 55 passengers.
• 9 July – Legislative election held.

Births

January to June

• 31 January – Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, adventurer (died 1890)
• 13 March – Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist (died 1929)
• 18 March – Stéphane Mallarmé, poet and critic (died 1898)
• 25 March – Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist (died 1932)
• 4 April – Édouard Lucas, mathematician (died 1891)
• 17 April – Maurice Rouvier, statesman (died 1911)
• 10 June – Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, painter and sculptor (died 1923)

July to December

• 30 July – Auguste Bouché-Leclercq, historian (died 1923)
• 14 August – Jean Gaston Darboux, mathematician (died 1917)
• 25 August – Édouard Louis Trouessart, zoologist (died 1927)
• 28 August – Placide Louis Chapelle, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans (died 1905)
• 30 September – Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg, Archbishop of Rennes and Cardinal (died 1921)
• 6 October – Gustave Charles Fagniez, historian and economist (died 1927)
• 8 December – Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly, astronomer (died 1926)

Deaths

January to June

• 7 January – Charles Berny d'Ouvillé, miniaturist (born 1775)
• 19 January – Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon, jurist and politician (born 1749)
• 23 March – Stendhal, writer (born 1783)
• 30 March – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, painter (born 1755)
• 8 May – Jules Dumont d'Urville, explorer and French Navy officer, and his wife Adèle, killed in Versailles rail accident (born 1790)
• 15 May – Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, atlas-maker, member of Napoleon's entourage and member of the military (born 1766)
• 24 June – Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois, engineer (born 1776)

July to December

• 13 July – Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Prince Royal of France (born 1810)
• 19 July – Pierre Joseph Pelletier, chemist (born 1788)
• 25 July – Dominique Jean Larrey, military surgeon (born 1766)
• 20 October – Alexandre de Laborde, antiquary, liberal politician and writer (born 1773)

References

References

1. May, Gita. (2005). "Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution". Yale University Press.