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1850 In France
Events from the year 1850 in France. Events *15 April - Angers Bridge collapses with around 480 soldiers marching across it; about 226 are killed. *16 May - Battleship '' Le Napoléon'' is launched. *France begins to transport colonists to Algeria. Births *14 January - Pierre Loti, sailor and writer (died 1923) *31 May - Alphonse Pénaud, aeronautical pioneer (died 1880) *5 August - Guy de Maupassant, writer (died 1893) *6 August - Henri Chantavoine, writer (died 1918) *25 August - Charles Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913 (died 1935) Deaths January to June *22 January - William Joseph Chaminade, priest, beatified (born 1761) *22 March - Sophie d'Arbouville, writer (born 1810) *16 April - Marie Tussaud, wax sculptor (born 1761) *1 May - Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, zoologist and anatomist (born 1777) *9 May - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, chemist and physicist (born 1778) July to December *18 August - Honoré de Balzac, novelist and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie D'Arbouville
Sophie de Bezancourt Loyré d'Arbouville, the Count Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: ...ess d'Arbouville (29 October 1810 – 22 March 1850) was a French writer. Biography Born on October 28, 1810, Sophie de Bezancourt was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Maximilien Joseph Antoine Lecat, baron de Bazancourt, and his wife Élisabeth Marie Constance Henriette d'Houdetot.Toutes ces données biographiques se trouvent dans ''Madame d'Arbouville d'après ses lettres à Sainte-Beuve, 1846-1850'' par Léon Séché ; voir Bibliographie She was Sophie d'Houdetot's granddaughter, and frequented her salon with select society. Léon Séché described her as follows: "She had a rather ugly figure, with strong features and protruding eyes which, at first glance, were not in her favo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1787 In France
Events from the year 1787 in France. Incumbents *Monarch: Louis XVI Events February *22 February - The Assembly of Notables is held November *7 November - Louis XVI signs the Edict of Versailles, giving religious freedom to non-Catholics in France. *21 November - The Treaty of Versailles (1787) is signed between Louis XVI and the Vietnamese prince Nguyễn Ánh. Births *24 January - Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville *2 February - Charles Etienne Boniface *8 February - Théodore Basset de Jolimont *2 May - Martial de Guernon-Ranville *1 August - Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, 2nd Duke of Talleyrand, 2nd Duke of Dino (1 August 1787 – 14 May 1872), was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars. Early life He was born in Paris, the son of Archambaud de Talleyrand-Périgord (1762–1838) an ... *15 August - Francois Sudre Deaths *13 February - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes See also References {{Year in Europe, 1787 1780 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Sulpice Beudant
François Sulpice Beudant (5 September 1787 – 10 December 1850), was a French mineralogist and geologist. The mineral beudantite was named after him. Life He was born in Paris. He was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Normale, and in 1811 was appointed professor of mathematics at the lycée of Avignon. Thence he was called, in 1813, to the lycée of Marseilles to fill the post of professor of physics, where he carried out the first measurements of the speed of sound in seawater. In the following year the royal mineralogical cabinet was committed to his charge to be conveyed into England, and from that time his attention was directed principally towards geology and cognate sciences. In 1817 he published a paper on the phenomena of crystallization, treating especially of the variety of forms assumed by the same mineral substance. In 1818 he undertook, at the expense of the French government, a geological journey through Hungary, and the results of his researches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Xavier-Joseph Droz
François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (; 31 December 1773 – 9 November 1850) was a reactionary French writer on ethics, political science and political economy. Biography He was born at Besançon, where his family had supplied many notable members of the legal profession. Droz's own legal studies led him to Paris in 1792; he arrived the day after the dethronement of King Louis XVI of France, and was present during the massacres of September. On the declaration of war he joined the volunteer battalion of the Doubs, and for the next three years served in the Army of the Rhine. Discharged on health grounds, he obtained a much more congenial post in the newly founded école centrale of Besançon; and in 1799 he made his first appearance as an author by an ''Essai sur l'art oratoire'' (Paris, Fructidor, An VII.), in which he acknowledges his indebtedness more especially to Hugh Blair. Moving to Paris in 1803, he became friendly not only with the like-minded Ducis, but also with the scept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1773 In France
Events from the year 1773 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XV Events Births *2 September – Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont, Marshal of France (died 1846) Full date missing *Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, genealogist (died 1842) *Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes, military officer (died 1822) *François Fournier-Sarlovèze, military officer (died 1827) Deaths Full date missing *Philibert Commerson, naturalist (born 1727) *Philippe Buache, geographer (born 1700) *Maximin de Bompart, naval officer (born 1698) *Philippe de La Guêpière (Pierre Louis) Philippe de La Guêpière (c. 1715 – 30 October 1773) was an 18th-century French architect whose main commissions were from Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg. Early life Philippe was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, south of Paris ..., architect (born c.1715) See also References 1770s in France {{France-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Philippe Of France
Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to lieutenant general by the age of nineteen, but he broke with the Republic over its decision to execute King Louis XVI. He fled to Switzerland in 1793 after being connected with a plot to restore France's monarchy. His father Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Égalité) fell under suspicion and was executed during the Reign of Terror. Louis Philippe remained in exile for 21 years until the Bourbon Restoration. He was proclaimed king in 1830 after his cousin Charles X was forced to abdicate by the July Revolution (and because of the Spanish renounciation). The reign of Louis Philippe is known as the July Monarchy and was dominated by wealthy industrialists and bankers. He followed conservative policies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 In France
This article lists events from the year 1799 in France Incumbents * Until 10 November – the French Directory – five Directors * From 10 November – the French Consulate – three consuls Events * The French Revolutionary Wars resumed, with a number of campaigns * 9 November – Coup of 18 Brumaire * 10 November – disbanding of the French Directory, and establishment of the French Consulate Births * 20 May – Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (died 1850) * 8 July – Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (died 1859) * 9 July – Théophile Tilmant, violinist (died 1878) Deaths * 19 February – Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician (born 1733) * 5 April – Honoré Fragonard, anatomist (born 1732) * 28 April – François Giroust, composer (born 1737) * 9 May – Claude Balbastre, composer (born 1724) * 18 May – Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, watchmaker, satirist and revolutionary (born 1732) * 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoré De Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his '' magnum opus''. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1778 In France
Events from the year 1778 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XVI Events *6 February – Treaty of Alliance *27 July – Battle of Ushant Births Full date missing *Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, archaeologist (died 1867) Deaths * 30 May – Voltaire, writer, historian, and philosopher (born 1694) Full date missing *François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter (born 1691) *Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny, Marshall of France (born 1689) *Pierre Laclède, fur trader, founder of St. Louis (born 1729) *Élisabeth Duparc, soprano singer *Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1704) *Charles Clémencet Charles Clémencet (17035 August 1778) was a French Benedictine historian. He was born in Painblanc, in present-day Côte-d'Or, and was one of the authors who helped complete the great chronological work (the usual short form of a long title). H ..., historian (born 1703) * Jean Girardet, painter (born 1709) See also Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (, , ; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen (with Alexander von Humboldt), for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol–water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries. Biography Gay-Lussac was born at Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat in the present-day department of Haute-Vienne. The father of Joseph Louis Gay, Anthony Gay, son of a doctor, was a lawyer and prosecutor and worked as a judge in Noblat Bridge. Father of two sons and three daughters, he owned much of the Lussac village and usually added the name of this hamlet of the Haute-Vienne to his name, following a custom of the Ancien Régime. Towards the year 1803, father and son finally adopted the name Gay-Lussac. During the Revolution, on behalf of the Law of Suspects, his father, former king's atto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1777 In France
Events from the year 1777 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XVI Events *3 June – Treaty of Aranjuez Births *31 January – Jean-Pierre Vibert, rosarian (died 1866) *12 February ** Bernard Courtois, chemist (died 1838) ** Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, poet (died 1843) *3 March – Adolphe Dureau de la Malle, geographer, naturalist, historian and artist (died 1857) *3 December – Juliette Récamier, saloniste (died 1849) *Auguste, comte de La Ferronays, politician (died 1842) Deaths *27 January – Hubert de Brienne, naval commander (born 1690) *20 March – Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart, cardinal (born 1708) *7 May **Charles de Brosses, writer (born 1709) **Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, officer of the marines and colonial administrator for New France (born 1708) *23 August – Charles-Joseph Natoire, painter (born 1700) *13 July – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, sculptor (born 1715) *6 October – Marie Thér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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