![An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/An_Officer_of_the_Imperial_Horse_Guards_Charging.jpg)
Events from the year 1812 in
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, Pac ...
Incumbents
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Emperor
An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereignty, sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), ...
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Napoleon I
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
Events
* The
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain ...
(1807–1814)
* 12 February –
Metric system
The metric system is a system of measurement that succeeded the Decimal, decimalised system based on the metre that had been introduced in French Revolution, France in the 1790s. The historical development of these systems culminated in the d ...
rescinded for everyday use
* 24 June - 14 December – The
French invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, the Army of Twenty nations, and the Patriotic War of 1812 was launched by Napoleon Bonaparte to force the Russian Empire back into the continental block ...
Arts and culture
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The Charging Chasseur
''The Charging Chasseur'', or ''An Officer of the Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Imperial Horse Guards Charging'' is an oil painting on canvas of about 1812 by the French painter Théodore Géricault, portraying a mounted Napoleoni ...
'', painting by
Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is ''The Raft of the Medusa''. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic ...
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Fantasmagoriana
''Fantasmagoriana'' is a French anthology of German ghost stories, translated anonymously by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès and published in 1812. Most of the stories are from the first two volumes of Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun's (1 ...
'', book by
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (; 24 June 176713 June 1846) was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories '' Fantasmagoriana'', published anonymously in 18 ...
Births
* 4 January –
Alexandre Monnet
Alexandre-Hippolyte-Xavier Monnet, C.S.Sp. (4 January 1812 – 1 December 1849) was a French bishop of the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, and the Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers, Congregation of the Holy Spirit. He served as Ap ...
, bishop (died 1849)
* 15 April –
Théodore Rousseau
Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812December 22, 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
Life
Youth
He was born in Paris, France in a bourgeois family.
At first he received a basic level of training, but soon displaye ...
, painter (died 1867)
* 13 June –
Adolphe Braun
Jean Adolphe Braun (13 June 1812 – 31 December 1877)John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography', Vol. 1 (Routledge, 2007), pp. 204–205. was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes ...
, photographer (died 1877)
* 9 November –
Paul Abadie
Paul Abadie (9 November 1812 – 3 August 1884) was a French architect and building restorer. He is considered a central representative of French historicism. He was the son of architect Paul Abadie Sr.
Abadie worked on the restoration of Not ...
, architect (died 1884)
Deaths
![JeanBaptisteEble](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/JeanBaptisteEble.jpg)
* 13 February –
Jacques Marie Boutet
Jacques Marie Boutet (25 March 1745 – 13 February 1812) was a French actor and comic playwright from Lunéville. His pseudonym was Monvel. He was a small, thin man without good looks or voice, and yet he became one of the greatest comedians of h ...
, actor and comic dramatist (born 1745)
* 24 February –
Étienne-Louis Malus
Étienne-Louis Malus (; ; 23 July 1775 – 23 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician.
Malus was born in Paris, France. He participated in Napoleon's expedition into Egypt (1798 to 1801) and was a member o ...
, military officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1775)
* 24 July –
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse
Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (29 May 1747Granier, p.87Some biographers give a date of 1750 (Levot, p.541). Granier quotes the registers of Sainte-Marie parish. – 24 July 1812Levot, p.544) was a French admiral.
Villaret was born at Auch ...
, admiral (born 1747)
* 30 August –
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé
Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé (23 June 1764 – 30 August 1812) was an 18th–19th-century French poet and playwright.
Legouvé was born and died in Paris, and was the seventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in ...
, poet (born 1764)
* 22 October –
Alexis Joseph Delzons
Alexis Joseph Delzons (1775October 24, 1812) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was killed in the Battle of Maloyaroslavets. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Col ...
, general (born 1775)
* 29 October –
Emmanuel Maximilien-Joseph Guidal, general (born 1764)
* 22 December –
Pierre Henri Larcher
Pierre Henri Larcher (12 October 1726 – 22 December 1812) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist.
Life
Born at Dijon, and originally intended for the law, he abandoned it for the classics. His (anonymous) translation of Chariton's ''C ...
, classical scholar and archaeologist (born 1726)
Exact date missing
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Jean Baptiste Eblé
Jean Baptiste Eblé (21 December 1758 – 31 December 1812) was a French General, Engineer and Artilleryman during the Napoleonic Wars. He is credited with saving Napoleon's Grand Army from complete destruction in 1812.
Biography
Eblé was born ...
, general (born 1758)
See also
References
1810s in France
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