1842 in France
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1841 in France
See also:1840 in France,other events of 1841,1842 in France.----Events from the year 1841 in France.-Births:*7 January - Bernadette Soubirous, reported apparitions at Lourdes .*14 January - Berthe Morisot, painter ....

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1843 in France
See also:1842 in France,other events of 1843,1844 in France.----Events from the year 1843 in France.- April–June :* May 16 – The battle of Smala, a French victory over Algerian forces, led by Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale .- Date unknown :*Sanwi, a traditional kingdom located in the...

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Events from the year 1842 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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Events

  • 8 May - Versailles train crash
    Versailles train crash
    The Versailles rail accident occurred on May 8, 1842 in the cutting at Meudon Bellevue , France. Following the King's fete celebrations at the Palace of Versailles, a train returning to Paris crashed at Meudon after the leading locomotive broke an axle. The carriages behind piled into the wrecked...

     at Meudon
    Meudon
    Meudon is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is in the département of Hauts-de-Seine. It is located from the center of Paris.-Geography:...

    , results in the deaths of at least 55 passengers.
  • 9 July - Legislative election
    French legislative election, 1842
    The 1842 general election organized the sixth legislature of the July Monarchy. The election was held on 9 July.Only citizens paying taxes were eligible to vote.-Results:Louis-Philippe of France dissolved the legislature on 16 July 1846.- Sources :...

     held.


January to June

  • 31 January - Marie-Charles David de Mayréna
    Marie-Charles David de Mayréna
    Marie-Charles David de Mayréna , was an eccentric French adventurer who became the self-styled king of the Sedang of the northern Central Highlands in what is now southern Vietnam.De Mayréna was born in Toulon...

    , adventurer (d.1890
    1890 in France
    See also:1889 in France,other events of 1890,1891 in France.----Events from the year 1890 in France.-Events:*2 January - Steamship Persia wrecked off Corsica: 130 lives lost.*21 February - First Franco-Dahomean War begins....

    ).
  • 13 March - Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

     and physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

     (d.1929
    1929 in France
    See also:1928 in France,other events of 1929,1930 in France.----Events from the year 1929 in France.-Events:*24 July - Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by Aristide Briand....

    ).
  • 18 March - Stéphane Mallarmé
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...

    , poet and critic (d.1898
    1898 in France
    See also:1897 in France,other events of 1898,1899 in France.----Events from the year 1898 in France.-Events:*13 January - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair....

    ).
  • 25 March - Jean Marie Charles Abadie
    Jean Marie Charles Abadie
    Jean Marie Charles Abadie was a French ophthalmologist who was a native of Saint-Gaudens. He became a hospital intern in 1868 and a medical doctor in 1870...

    , ophthalmologist (d.1932
    1932 in France
    See also:1931 in France,other events of 1932,1933 in France.----Events from the year 1932 in France.-Events:*1 May - Legislative Election held.*6 May - Paul Gorguloff assassinates President Paul Doumer in Paris...

    ).
  • 4 April - Édouard Lucas
    Edouard Lucas
    François Édouard Anatole Lucas was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.-Biography:...

    , mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

     (d.1891
    1891 in France
    See also:1890 in France,other events of 1891,1892 in France.----Events from the year 1891 in France.-Events:*1 May - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies....

    ).
  • 17 April - Maurice Rouvier
    Maurice Rouvier
    Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman.He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and spent his early career in business at Marseille. He supported Léon Gambetta's candidature there in 1867, and in 1870 he founded an anti-imperial journal, L'Egalité. Becoming secretary general of the prefecture of...

    , statesman (d.1911
    1911 in France
    See also:1910 in France,other events of 1911,1912 in France.----Events from the year 1911 in France.-Events:*1 July - Agadir Crisis, sparked by deployment of German gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir....

    ).
  • 10 June - Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy
    Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy
    Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ was an orientalist French painter and sculptor. He was Charles Gleyre's and Jean-Léon Gérôme's pupil...

    , painter and sculptor (d.1923
    1923 in France
    See also:1922 in France,other events of 1923,1924 in France.----Events from the year 1923 in France.-Events:*11 January - Occupation of the Ruhr begins by French and Belgian troops to force Germany to pay its reparation payments....

    ).

July to December

  • 14 August - Jean Gaston Darboux
    Jean Gaston Darboux
    Jean-Gaston Darboux was a French mathematician.-Life:Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis . He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected Works of Joseph Fourier.Darboux received his Ph.D...

    , mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

     (d.1917
    1917 in France
    See also:1916 in France,other events of 1917,1918 in France.----Events from the year 1917 in France.-Events:*9 April - Battle of Arras, a British offensive, begins....

    ).
  • 25 August - Édouard Louis Trouessart
    Édouard Louis Trouessart
    Édouard Louis Trouessart was a French zoologist. He discovered the dust mite....

    , zoologist (d.1927
    1927 in France
    See also:1926 in France,other events of 1927,1928 in France.----Events from the year 1927 in France.-Events:*20 May-21 May - First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh....

    ).
  • 28 August - Placide Louis Chapelle
    Placide Louis Chapelle
    Archbishop Placide Louise Chapelle was a French-American Roman Catholic archbishop....

    , Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, officially in Latin Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae, is an ecclesiastical division of the Roman Catholic Church administered from New Orleans, Louisiana...

     (d.1905
    1905 in France
    See also:1904 in France,other events of 1905,1906 in France.----Events from the year 1905 in France.-Events:*31 March - German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis....

    ).
  • 30 September - Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg
    Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg
    Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Rennes from 1906 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1916.-Biography:...

    , Archbishop of Rennes and Cardinal
    Cardinal (Catholicism)
    A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

     (d.1921
    1921 in France
    See also:1920 in France,other events of 1921,1922 in France.----Events from the year 1921 in France.-Events:Before touching on the principal events which took place in France in the course of the year 1921, it is necessary to recall one or two of the outstanding facts of 1920 in France.The most...

    ).
  • 6 October - Gustave Charles Fagniez
    Gustave Charles Fagniez
    Gustave Charles Fagniez , French historian and economist, was born in Paris on the 6th of October 1842. Trained at the École des Chartes and the École pratique des hautes études, he made his first appearance in the world of scholarship as the author of an excellent book called Études sur...

    , historian and economist (d.1927
    1927 in France
    See also:1926 in France,other events of 1927,1928 in France.----Events from the year 1927 in France.-Events:*20 May-21 May - First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh....

    ).
  • 8 December - Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly
    Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly
    Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly was a French astronomer.Working in Marseille, he discovered asteroids and comets.He discovered the periodic comet 19P/Borrelly.The asteroid 1539 Borrelly was named in his honour....

    , astronomer
    Astronomer
    An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

     (d.1926
    1926 in France
    See also:1925 in France,other events of 1926,1927 in France.----Events from the year 1926 in France.-Events:*9 May - French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots....

    ).

January to June

  • 19 January - Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon
    Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon
    Joseph Jérôme, comte Siméon was a French jurist and politician. His son, Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon, was a noted diplomat.-Revolution:...

    , jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

     and politician (b.1749).
  • 23 March - Stendhal
    Stendhal
    Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme...

    , writer (b.1783).
  • 30 March - Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, painter (b.1755).
  • 8 May - Jules Dumont d'Urville
    Jules Dumont d'Urville
    Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.-Childhood:Dumont was born at Condé-sur-Noireau...

    , explorer and naval officer
    French Navy
    The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

    , killed in Versailles train crash
    Versailles train crash
    The Versailles rail accident occurred on May 8, 1842 in the cutting at Meudon Bellevue , France. Following the King's fete celebrations at the Palace of Versailles, a train returning to Paris crashed at Meudon after the leading locomotive broke an axle. The carriages behind piled into the wrecked...

     (b.1790).
  • 15 May - Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases
    Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases
    Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné-Joseph, comte de Las Cases was a French atlas-maker and author, famed for an admiring book on Napoleon....

    , soldier and official (b.1766).

July to December

  • 13 July - Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Prince Royal
    Prince Royal
    Prince Royal may refer to the Crown Prince in the following monarchies:* Prince Royal of Portugal, the Prince Royal of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves* Prince Royal of Haiti, see Jacques-Victor Henry, Prince Royal of Haiti...

     of France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     (b.1810
    1810 in France
    See also:1809 in France,other events of 1810,1811 in France.----Events from the year 1810 in France.-Events:*6 January - Treaty of Paris ends war between France and Sweden....

    ).
  • 19 July - Pierre Joseph Pelletier
    Pierre Joseph Pelletier
    Pierre-Joseph Pelletier was a French chemist who did notable research on vegetable alkaloids, and was the co-discoverer of quinine and strychnine.- Further reading :...

    , chemist
    Chemist
    A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

     (b.1788
    1788 in France
    See also:1787 in France,other events of 1788,1789 in France.----Events from the year 1788 in France.-Events:*7 June - Riots broke out in Grenoble, the Day of the Tiles.*21 July - Assembly of Vizille, the meeting of the Estates....

    ).
  • 25 July - Dominique Jean Larrey
    Dominique Jean Larrey
    Dominique Jean Larrey was a French surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine.-Biography:...

    , military surgeon
    Surgery
    Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

     (b.1766).
  • 20 October - Alexandre de Laborde
    Alexandre de Laborde
    Comte Louis-Joseph-Alexandre de Laborde was a French antiquary, liberal politician and writer, a member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques , under the rubric political economy.-Early years:...

    , antiquary, liberal politician and writer (b.1773).

Full date unknown

  • Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois
    Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois
    Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois was a French engineer who together with Édouard de Villiers du Terrage journeyed with Napoleon to Egypt, and prepared the Description de l'Égypte....

    , engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

     (b.1776).
  • Charles Berny d'Ouvillé
    Charles Berny d'Ouvillé
    Claude Charles Antoine Berny d'Ouvillé or Charles Berny born in 1775 in Clermont and death in 1842.French miniaturist, he made exhibitions of his paintings in the Salon de Paris from 1802 to 1833, one of this portraits the one of the famous actress Émilie Leverd...

    , miniaturist (b.1775
    1775 in France
    See also:1774 in France,other events of 1775,1776 in France.----Events from the year 1775 in France.-January to June:*20 January - André-Marie Ampère, physicist ....

    ).
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