1839 in France

"See also:"
1838 in France,
other events of 1839,
1840 in France.

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Events from the year 1839 in France.

Events

*9 January - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
*2 March - Legislative election held.
*22 June - Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September with the prize of 400 Francs).
*6 July - Legislative election held.
*19 August - French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world".
*15 October - Abd al-Kader declares a jihad against the French.

Births

*19 January - Paul Cézanne, painter (d.1906).
*27 January - Marie Adolphe Carnot, chemist, mining engineer and politician (d.1920).
*16 March - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (d.1907).
*5 May - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (d.1907).
*21 May - Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (d.1873).
*9 August - Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (d.1903).

Full date unknown

*Gaston du Bousquet, engineer (d.1910).
*Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (d.1882).
*Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (d.1906).

Deaths

*10 January - Charles Philippe Lafont, violinist and composer (b.1781).
*2 March - Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon I (b.1802).
*2 April - Toussaint-Bernard Éméric-David, archaeologist and writer on art (b.1755).
*9 May - Joseph Fiévée, journalist, novelist, essayist and playwright (b.1767).
*13 May - Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, statesman and journalist (b.1763).
*19 July - Maurice de Guérin, poet (b.1810).
*30 September - Joseph François Michaud, historian and publicist (b.1767).

Full date unknown

*Laurent Jean François Truguet, admiral (b.1752).

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