1821 in France

Events from the year 1821 in France.

Events

• 5 May - Napoléon dies in exile at Saint Helena. The cause of his death is still disputed.

Births

• 11 February - Auguste Mariette, scholar and archaeologist (died 1881).
• 9 April - Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic and translator (died 1867).
• 1 July - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist (died 1904).
• 18 July - Pauline García-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (died 1910).
• 29 August - Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, anthropologist (died 1898).
• 17 September - Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard, general (died 1897).
• 22 November - Charles Brun, naval engineer (died 1897).
• 12 December - Gustave Flaubert, novelist (died 1880).
• December - Joseph Déjacque, anarcho-communist poet and writer (died 1864).

Full date unknown

• Jean-André Cuoq, philologist (died 1898).

Deaths

• 17 March - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, poet and politician (born 1757).
• 5 May - Napoleon I of France, military and political leader (born 1769).
• 19 May - François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny, Marshal of France (born 1737).
• 19 May - Camille Jordan, politician (born 1771).
• 18 September - Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, physician (born 1755).
• 8 November - Jean Rapp, general lieutenant (born 1771).

Full date unknown

• Guy-Toussaint-Julien Carron, Roman Catholic priest and writer (born 1760).
• Jules Granier, composer (born 1770).
• César Guillaume de La Luzerne, Cardinal (born 1738).
• Marie-Denise Villers, painter (born 1774).