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HOW IT WORKS
1840 in France
Summary
Events from the year
1840 in
France
.
←
1839
1838
1837
1836
1835
1840
in
France
→
1841
1842
1843
1844
1845
Decades:
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
See also:
Other events of 1840
History of France
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
Louis Philippe I
Events
edit
20 January -
Dumont D'Urville
discovers
Adélie Land
,
Antarctica
.
1 March -
Adolphe Thiers
becomes prime minister.
30 September - The frigate
Belle Poule
arrives in
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
, returning the remains of
Napoleon
from
Saint Helena
. He is buried in
Les Invalides
.
Metric system
again mandatory across France.
Arts and literature
edit
11 February -
Gaetano Donizetti
's opera
La Fille du Regiment
premieres in
Paris
.
Births
edit
23 March -
Louis-Émile Bertin
, naval engineer (died
1924
)
2 April -
Émile Zola
, novelist (died
1902
)
22 April -
Odilon Redon
, painter and printmaker (died
1916
)
13 May -
Alphonse Daudet
, novelist (died
1897
)
20 October -
Désiré-Magloire Bourneville
, neurologist (died
1909
)
12 November -
Auguste Rodin
, sculptor (died
1917
)
14 November -
Claude Monet
, Impressionist painter (died
1926
)
[1]
1 December -
Marie Bracquemond
, Impressionist painter (died
1916
)
Deaths
edit
13 February -
Nicolas Joseph Maison
,
Marshal of France
and Minister of War (born
1770
)
27 February -
John Tessier
, French Sulpician priest (born 1758)
22 March -
Étienne Bobillier
, mathematician (born
1798
)
25 April -
Siméon Denis Poisson
, mathematician and physicist (born
1781
)
7 June -
Népomucène Lemercier
, poet and dramatist (born
1771
)
20 June -
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
, painter and botanist (born
1759
)
7 September -
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald
,
Marshal of France
(born
1765
)
References
edit
^
"Claude Monet | Biography, Art, Water Lilies, Haystacks, Impression: Sunrise, & Facts | Britannica".
www.britannica.com
. Retrieved
7 June
2022
.