1818 in France

"See also:"
1817 in France,
other events of 1818,
1819 in France.

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Events from the year 1818 in France.

Events

*1 October - Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle is convened.

Births

January to June

*26 January - Amédée de Noé, caricaturist and lithographer (d.1879).
*7 February - François Paul Meurice, dramatist (d.1905).
*18 May - Eugène Bouchut, physician (d.1891).
*3 June - Louis Faidherbe, general and colonial administrator (d.1889).
*13 June - Jean-Jules Allasseur, sculptor (d.1903).
*18 June - Charles Gounod, composer (d.1893).

July to December

*8 August - Joseph Roumanille, poet (d.1891).
*12 August - Edmond-Frederic Le Blant, archaeologist and historian (d.1897).
*14 August - François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville, admiral (d.1900).
*18 August - Henri Le Secq, painter and photographer (d.1882).
*26 October - Louis Buffet, statesman (d.1898).

Full date unknown

*Gustave Aimard, traveller and writer (d.1883).
*Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot, naturalist and entomologist (d.1893).
*Élie-Abel Carrière, botanist (d.1896).
*Vrain Denis-Lucas, forger (d.1880).

Deaths

*23 April - Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure, Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium (b.1721).
*1 May - François-Joseph Bélanger, architect and decorator (b.1744).
*28 July - Gaspard Monge, mathematician (b.1746).
*19 October - André Antoine Bernard, lawyer and revolutionary (b.1751).
*28 October - Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, politician and Marshal of France (b.1765).
*25 December - Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, Marshal of France (b.1754).

Full date unknown

*Claude Matthieu, Count Gardane, general and diplomat (b.1766).
*Bertrand de Molleville, government Minister (b.1744).
*Adrien-Nicolas Piédefer, marquis de La Salle, writer and cavalry officer (b.1735).

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