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

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).

References