1799 in France
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This article lists events from the year 1799 in France

Incumbents
- Until 10 November â the French Directory â five Directors[1]
- From 10 November â the French Consulate â three consuls[2]
Events
- The French Revolutionary Wars resumed, with a number of campaigns
- 9 November â Coup of 18 Brumaire
- 10 November â disbanding of the French Directory, and establishment of the French Consulate[3]
Births

- 20 May â Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (died 1850)
- 8 July â Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (died 1859)[4]
- 9 July â Théophile Tilmant, violinist (died 1878)
Deaths

- 19 February â Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician (born 1733)
- 5 April â Honoré Fragonard, anatomist (born 1732)
- 28 April â François Giroust, composer (born 1737)
- 9 May â Claude Balbastre, composer (born 1724)
- 18 May â Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, watchmaker, satirist and revolutionary (born 1732)[5]
- 31 May â Pierre Charles Le Monnier, astronomer (born 1715)
- 27 June 27 â Ãlisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665)[6]
- 7 September â Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, scientist (born 1717)
- 17 October â Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist (born 1731)
- 9 December â Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter (born 1712)
- 18 December â Jean-Ãtienne Montucla, mathematician (born 1725)
- 31 December â Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist (born 1716)
- 31 December â Jean-François Marmontel, historian (born 1723)
See also
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