1850 in France
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Events from the year 1850 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 15 April - Angers Bridge collapsed when 478 French soldiers marched across it. 229 were killed.
- 16 May - French battleship Le Napoléon is launched.
- France begins to transport colonists to Algeria.
[edit] Births
- 14 January - Pierre Loti, sailor and writer (d.1923).
- 5 August - Guy de Maupassant, writer (d.1893).
- 6 August - Henri Chantavoine, writer (d.1918).
- 25 August - Charles Robert Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913 (d.1935).
[edit] Deaths
- 22 January - William Joseph Chaminade, priest, beatified (b.1761).
- 16 April - Marie Tussaud, wax sculptor (b.1761).
- 1 May - Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, zoologist and anatomist (b.1777).
- 9 May - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, chemist and physicist (b.1778).
- 18 August - Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (b.1799).
- 26 August - Louis-Philippe of France, King of the French, last king of France (b.1773).
- 9 November - François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, writer on ethics, political science and political economy (b.1773).
- 10 December - François Sulpice Beudant, mineralogist and geologist (b.1787).
- 24 December - Frédéric Bastiat, writer and political economist (b.1801).
