1816 in France
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Events from the year 1816 in France
Incumbents
- Monarch – Louis XVIII[1]
- Prime Minister – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu[2]
Events
- 8 May – Divorce is abolished by the Chambre introuvable, after having been permitted following the French Revolution.[3]
- 2 July – French frigate Méduse (1810) runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
- 6 September – King Louis XVIII dissolves the Chambre introuvable, the legislature that had been elected after the Second Restoration re-established the old monarchy.[4]
- 25 September and 4 October – 1816 French legislative election.
Arts and culture
- 21 March – The Institut de France is reorganized by Louis XVIII into four royal academies: a revived Académie française; the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; the Royal Academy of Sciences; and the Académie des Beaux-Arts.[5]
Finance
- 28 April – The Caisse des dépôts et consignations, a public investment body, is created by Louis XVIII.[6]
- Mutuelle de L'assurance contre L'incendie ("L'Anciente Mutuelle"), predecessor of Axa, the global insurance and financial services company, is founded in Rouen.[7]
Births
- 18 February – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (died 1913)
- 19 February – Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, inventor and engineer (died 1889)
- 14 July – Arthur de Gobineau, aristocrat, novelist, diplomat, travel writer and racist theorist (died 1882 in Italy)
- 4 September – François Bazin, opera composer (died 1878)
- 29 September – Paul Féval, père, novelist and dramatist (died 1887)
Deaths
- 2 January – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, chemist and politician (born 1737)
- 16 January – Jacques-René Tenon, surgeon (born 1724)
- 31 March – Jean-François Ducis, dramatist (born 1733)[8]
- 8 April – Julie Billiart, religious leader (born 1751)
- 28 April – Edme Mentelle, geographer (born 1730)
- 4 May – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (born 1743)
- 7 June – Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral, clergyman (born 1746)
- 4 August – François-André Vincent, painter (born 1746)
- 7 August – François-Joseph Duret, sculptor (born 1729)
- 30 September – Joseph Caillot, actor and singer (born 1733)
- 18 October – Claude Dejoux, sculptor (born 1732)
- 21 December – Jean-Pierre-André Amar, politician (born 1755)
Exact date missing
- François-Guillaume Ménageot, painter (born 1744)
See also
References
- ^ Strieter, Terry W. (1999). Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-313-29898-1.
- ^ "Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duke de Richelieu | prime minister of France | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ Counter, Andrew J. (2016). The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford University Press. p. 47.
- ^ Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2002) p157.
- ^ Louis L. Bucciarelli and Nancy Dworsky, Sophie Germain: An Essay in the History of the Theory of Elasticity (Springer, 2012) p138.
- ^ "Ordonnance du 3 juillet 1816 relative aux attributions de la Caisse des dépôts et consignations créée par la loi du 28 avril 1816". Legifrance. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
- ^ "Axa Isle of Man: History". Axa-iom.co.im. 1996-11-12. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Ducis, Jean François". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 478. Retrieved 23 November 2014.