1820 in France

"See also:"
1819 in France,
other events of 1820,
1821 in France.

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Events from the year 1820 in France.

Events

*4 November - Legislative election held.
*13 November - Legislative election held.

Births

*16 January - Pierre Louis Rouillard, sculptor (d.1881).
*20 January - Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, geologist and mineralogist (d.1886).
*20 February - Gustave Nadaud, songwriter and chansonnier (d.1893).
*30 April - Edouard Louis Dubufe, painter (d.1883).
*11 June - Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (d.1902).
*17 September - Émile Augier, dramatist (d.1889).
*29 September - Henri, comte de Chambord, Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France (d.1883).
*24 October - Eugène Fromentin, painter and writer (d.1876).
*8 November - Hippolyte Castille, writer (d.1886).

Full date unknown

*Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne, historian (d.1882).
*Léon Fairmaire, entomologist (d.1906).
*Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, historian (d.1895).
*Ernest de Jonquières, mathematician (d.1901).
*Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (d.1888).
*Auguste Sallé, traveller and entomologist (d.1896).

Deaths

January to June

*9 January - Charles-Louis Clérisseau, architectural draughtsman, antiquary, and artist (b.1721).
*21 January - Palisot de Beauvois, naturalist (b.1752).
*15 February - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, statesman (b.1756).
*26 March - Jean-Étienne Despréaux, ballet dancer, choreographer, composer, singer and playwright (b.1748).
*25 April - Constantin-François Chassebœuf, philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (b.1757).
*21 June - Alexis Thérèse Petit, physicist (b.1791).

July to December

*14 September - François Joseph Lefebvre, Marshal of France (b.1755).
*5 October - Augustin Barruel, Jesuit priest and writer (b.1741).
*16 November - Jean-Lambert Tallien, political figure (b.1767).
*7 December - Denis Decrès, naval officer and nobleman (b.1761).
*25 December - Joseph Fouché, statesman and Minister (b.1763).
*29 December - Jean Baptiste Antoine Auget de Montyon, philanthropist (b.1733).

Full date unknown

*Pierre Denys de Montfort, naturalist (b.1766).
*Jean-Baptiste Robinet, naturalist (b.1735).
*Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, painter (b.1747).

References