1850 in France

See also: 1849 in France, 1851 in France.

Events from the year 1850 in France.

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.

Births

• 14 January - Pierre Loti, sailor and writer (died 1923).
• 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 playwright (born 1799).
• 26 August - Louis-Philippe of France, last king of France (born 1773).
• 9 November - François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, writer on ethics, political science and political economy (born 1773).
• 10 December - François Sulpice Beudant, mineralogist and geologist (born 1787).
• 24 December - Frédéric Bastiat, writer and political economist (born 1801).

Full date unknown

• Armand-Benjamin Caillau, Roman Catholic priest, a missionary and writer (born 1794).

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