1841 in France

"See also:"
1840 in France,
other events of 1841,
1842 in France.

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Events from the year 1841 in France.

Events

Births

*7 January - Bernadette Soubirous, reported apparitions at Lourdes (d.1879).
*14 January - Berthe Morisot, painter (d.1895).
*30 January - Félix Faure, President of France (d.1899).
*25 February - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter (d.1919).
*2 April - Clément Ader, engineer and aviation pioneer (d.1925).
*13 April - Louis-Ernest Barrias, sculptor (d.1905).
*28 September - Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (d.1929).
*6 November - Armand Fallières, politician and President of France (d.1931).
*6 December - Frédéric Bazille, painter (d.1870).
*20 December - Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (d.1932).

Full date unknown

*Marie Bracquemond, artist (d.1916).
*Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin, maker of violins, violas, cellos, basses and bows (d.1923).

Deaths

*13 January - Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, politician and journalist (b.1755).
*23 February - Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin, painter and antiquary (b.1779).
*1 March - Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (b.1764).
*28 April - Peter Chanel, priest, missionary, martyr and saint (b.1803).
*23 June - Étienne Joseph Louis Garnier-Pagès, politician (b.1801).
*9 November - Jean Victoire Audouin, naturalist, entomologist and ornithologist (b.1797).

Full date unknown

*Nicolas François Appert, confectioner, inventor of airtight food preservation (b.1749).
*Louis Pierre Edouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian (b.1771).
*Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy, painter (b.1757).
*Etienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers, practitioner of mesmerism as a scientific discipline (b.1755).
*François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter, furniture maker (b.1770).

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