1840 in France

Events from the year 1840 in France.

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.

Arts and literature

• 11 February - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.

Births

• 2 April - Émile Zola, writer (died 1902).
• 22 April - Odilon Redon, painter and printmaker (died 1916).
• 13 May - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (died 1897).
• 20 October - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (died 1909).
• 12 November - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (died 1917).
• 14 November - Claude Monet, painter (died 1926).

Full date unknown

• Louis-Émile Bertin, naval engineer (died 1924).

Deaths

• 13 February - Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (born 1770).
• 22 March - Étienne Bobillier, mathematician (born 1798).
• 25 April - Siméon Denis Poisson, mathematician and physicist (born 1781).
• 7 June - Népomucène Lemercier, poet and dramatist (born 1771).
• 20 June - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, painter and botanist (born 1759).
• 7 September - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, Marshal of France (born 1765).

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