1836 in France
Events from the year 1836 in France.
Births
- 3 January - Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, politician (died 1897).
- 14 January - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (died 1904).
- 21 February - Léo Delibes, composer (died 1891).
- 31 May - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer (died 1932).
- 26 June - Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (died 1918).
- 4 October - Juliette Adam, writer (died 1936).
- 15 October - James Tissot, painter (died 1902).
- 20 December - Alfred Grandidier, naturalist and explorer (died 1921).
Full date unknown
- Jean Pierre Philippe Lampué, photographer (died 1924).
Deaths
- 9 January - Pierre François Lacenaire, poet and murderer (born 1800).
- 21 January - André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac, naturalist (born 1786).
- 7 March - Français of Nantes, politician and author (born 1756).
- 10 June - André-Marie Ampère, physicist (born 1775).
- 26 June - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer, writer of La Marseillaise (born 1760).
- 23 July - Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart, astronomer (born 1800).
- 25 July - Armand Carrel, writer (born 1800).
- 21 August - Claude-Louis Navier, engineer and physicist (born 1785).
- 17 September - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, botanist (born 1748).
- 6 November - Charles X of France, King of France and Navarre (born 1757).
- 30 November - Pierre Girard, mathematician and engineer (born 1765).