1816 in France

Events from the year 1816 in France

Decades:

Incumbents

8 May â Divorce is abolished by the Chambre introuvable, after having been permitted following the French Revolution.^[3]
2 July â French frigate MÃ©duse (1810) runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
6 September â King Louis XVIII dissolves the Chambre introuvable, the legislature that had been elected after the Second Restoration re-established the old monarchy.^[4]
25 September and 4 October â 1816 French legislative election.

21 March â The Institut de France is reorganized by Louis XVIII into four royal academies: a revived AcadÃ©mie franÃ§aise; the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; the Royal Academy of Sciences; and the AcadÃ©mie des Beaux-Arts.^[5]

28 April â The Caisse des dÃ©pÃ´ts et consignations, a public investment body, is created by Louis XVIII.^[6]
Mutuelle de L'assurance contre L'incendie ("L'Anciente Mutuelle"), predecessor of Axa, the global insurance and financial services company, is founded in Rouen.^[7]

18 February â Ferdinand DuguÃ©, poet and playwright (died 1913)
19 February â Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, inventor and engineer (died 1889)
14 July â Arthur de Gobineau, aristocrat, novelist, diplomat, travel writer and racist theorist (died 1882 in Italy)
4 September â FranÃ§ois Bazin, opera composer (died 1878)
29 September â Paul FÃ©val, pÃ¨re, novelist and dramatist (died 1887)