1812 in France
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Incumbents
- Emperor â Napoleon I[1]
Events
- The Peninsular War (1807â1814)
- 12 February â Metric system rescinded for everyday use
- 24 June - 14 December â The French invasion of Russia
Arts and culture
- The Charging Chasseur, painting by Théodore Géricault
- Fantasmagoriana, book by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Births
- 4 January â Alexandre Monnet, bishop (died 1849)
- 15 April â Théodore Rousseau, painter (died 1867)
- 13 June â Adolphe Braun, photographer (died 1877)
- 9 November â Paul Abadie, architect (died 1884)
- 15 November â Adolphe Pierre Leleux, painter (died 1891)
Deaths
- 13 February â Jacques Marie Boutet, actor and comic dramatist (born 1745)
- 24 February â Ãtienne-Louis Malus, military officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1775)
- 24 July â Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, admiral (born 1747)
- 30 August â Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, poet (born 1764)
- 22 October â Alexis Joseph Delzons, general (born 1775)
- 29 October â Emmanuel Maximilien-Joseph Guidal, general (born 1764)
- 22 December â Pierre Henri Larcher, classical scholar and archaeologist (born 1726)
Exact date missing
- Jean Baptiste Eblé, general (born 1758)[2]
