1822 in France

"See also:"
1821 in France,
other events of 1822,
1823 in France.

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Events from the year 1822 in France.

Events

*20 October - Congress of Verona, at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain.
* Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.

Births

*8 February - Maxime Du Camp, writer and photographer (d.1894).
*4 March - Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (d.1880).
*8 March - Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (d.1895).
*11 March - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, mathematician (d.1900).
*7 May - André Garin, missionary and parish priest (d.1895).
*20 May - Frédéric Passy, economist, joint winner (with Henry Dunant) of first Nobel Peace Prize, 1901 (d.1912).
*26 May - Edmond de Goncourt, writer, critic and book publisher (d.1896).
*19 October - Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (d.1901).
*27 December - Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist (d.1895).

Full date unknown

*Delphine Delamare, housewife and suicide (d.1848).
*Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, architect (d.1893).
*Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (d.1886).

Deaths

*3 March - Abraham-Joseph Bénard, actor (b.1750).
*19 March - Valentin Haüy, founder of the first school for the blind (b.1745).
*10 May - Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, abbé and instructor of deaf-mutes (b.1742).
*3 June - René Just Haüy, mineralogist (b.1743).
*2 August - Thomas de Treil de Pardailhan, nobleman and soldier (b.1754).
*19 August - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer (b.1749).
*16 September - Auguste Jean Ameil, Brigade General (b.1776).
*6 November - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist and senator (b.1748).
*10 December - Bertrand Andrieu, medal engraver (b.1761).

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