Events from the year 1831 in France.

Incumbents

Events

*10 March - The French Foreign Legion is founded. *5 July -

1831 French legislative election The 1831 general election organized the second legislature of the July Monarchy. The election was held on 5 July. Only tax paying citizens were eligible to vote. Results Sources {{French elections 1831 Events January–M ...

. *2 August - The Dutch Ten Days' Campaign against Belgium is halted by a French army. *22 November - In the first of the Canut Revolts, after a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties, rebellious silk workers seize Lyon.

Arts and literature

*16 March -

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

's historical

romantic Romantic may refer to: Genres and eras * The Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries ** Romantic music, of that era ** Romantic poetry, of that era ** Romanticism in science, of that e ...

Gothic novel Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name is a reference to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of ea ...

''Notre-Dame de Paris'', known in English as '' The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (completed on 15 January), is published by Gosselin in Paris. *19 March - The play ''La Cocarde Tricolore'' by the

Cogniard brothers The Cogniard brothers were two French brothers who worked as playwrights and theatre directors, producing an incalculable number of vaudevilles, reviews, féeries and operettas. The elder of the two was Charles-Théodore or Théodore Cogniard (30 A ...

introduces the term "''chauvinism''". *

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...

arrives in Paris.

Births

*12 March - Joseph Gérard, Roman Catholic missionary priest (died 1914) *15 April -

Eugène Poubelle Eugène-René Poubelle (15 April 1831 – 15 July 1907) was a French lawyer and diplomat who introduced waste containers to Paris and made their use compulsory. This introduction was so innovative at the time that Poubelle's surname became synony ...

, lawyer and diplomat who introduces the dustbin to Paris (died 1907) *7 July - Eugène Ketterer, composer and pianist (died 1870) *17 July -

Amédée Mannheim Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim (17 July 1831 – 11 December 1906) was the inventor of the modern slide rule. Around 1850, he introduced a new scale system that used a ''runner'' to perform calculations. This type of slide rule became known u ...

, inventor of a slide rule (died 1906) *15 August - Pierre Petit, photographer (died 1909) *12 October - Ernest Boulanger, politician and economist (died 1907) *31 October - Paul Durand-Ruel, modern art dealer (died 1922) *23 December - Marie-Azélie Guérin-Martin, Roman Catholic lay religious, canonized (died 1877)

Deaths

*28 April -

Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg Marie-Charles-César de Faÿ, comte de la Tour-Maubourg (11 February 1757, at La Motte-de-Galaure, Drôme – 28 April 1831, in Paris) was a French soldier and politician during the French Revolution and the First French Empire. His father was Claud ...

, soldier and politician (born 1757) *12 May - Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, botanist (born 1758) *27 August -

François Dumont François Dumont may refer to: *François Dumont (sculptor) (1688–1729), French sculptor *François Dumont (painter) (1751–1831), French painter of portrait miniatures *François Dumont (pianist) François Dumont (; born 19 October 1985 in Lyo ...

, portrait miniature painter (born 1751) *14 October - Jean-Louis Pons, astronomer (born 1761)

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