1840 in France
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Events from the year 1840 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 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, bringing back the remains of Napoléon from Saint Helena. He is buried in the Invalides.
[edit] Arts and Literature
- 11 February - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.
[edit] Births
- 2 April - Émile Zola, writer (d.1902).
- 22 April - Odilon Redon, painter and printmaker (d.1916).
- 13 May - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (d.1897).
- 20 October - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (d.1909).
- 12 November - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (d.1917).
- 14 November - Claude Monet, painter (d.1926).
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- Louis-Émile Bertin, naval engineer (d.1924).
[edit] Deaths
- 13 February - Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (b.1770).
- 22 March - Étienne Bobillier, mathematician (b.1798).
- 25 April - Siméon Denis Poisson, mathematician and physicist (b.1781).
- 7 June - Népomucène Lemercier, poet and dramatist (b.1771).
- 20 June - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, painter and botanist (b.1759).
- 7 September - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, Marshal of France (b.1765).
