1849 in France

"See also:"
1848 in France,
other events of 1849,
1850 in France.

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Events from the year 1849 in France.

Events

*1 January - France's first postage stamp, Ceres, is issued.
*27 April - Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Rome to defend it from the French troops of General Oudinot.
*13 May - Legislative election held.
*3 July - French troops occupy Rome. Roman Republic surrenders.

Births

*12 January - Jean Béraud, painter and commercial artist (d.1935).
*8 February - Henri Amédée de Broglie, nobleman (d.1917).
*21 February - Edouard Deville, first to perfect a practical method of photogrammetry (d.1924).
*4 April - Félix Balzer, physician (d.1929).
*2 June - Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (d.1934).
*3 July - Prosper-René Blondlot, physicist (d.1930).
*19 July - François Victor Alphonse Aulard, historian (d.1928).
*19 July - Ferdinand Brunetière, writer and critic (d.1906).
*3 August - Joseph Jules Dejerine, neurologist (d.1917).
*18 August - Benjamin Godard, violinist and composer (d.1895).

Full date unknown

*Théobald Chartran, painter (d.1907).

Deaths

*13 April - Théophile Marion Dumersan, writer and numismatist (b.1780).
*28 April - René-Primevère Lesson, surgeon and naturalist (b.1794).
*11 May - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, leader of the literary and political circles (b.1777).
*10 June - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria (b.1784).
*26 August - Jacques Féréol Mazas, composer, conductor and violinist (b.1782).
*12 November - Alexis-François Artaud De Montor, diplomat and historian (b.1772).
*21 November - François Marius Granet, painter (b.1777).
*27 December - Jacques-Laurent Agasse, painter (b.1767).

Full date unknown

*Philippe-Frédéric Blandin, physician and surgeon (b.1798).
*Quatremère de Quincy, archaeologist and writer on art (b.1755).

References