1839 in France
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Events from the year 1839 in France.
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Events
- 9 January â The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
- 2 March â Legislative election held.
- 12â13 May â Failed insurrection led by Louis Auguste Blanqui, Armand Barbès, Martin Bernard, and the Société des Saisons as part of the struggle for French worker's rights.
- 22 June â Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September with the prize of 400 Francs).
- 6 July â Legislative election held.
- 19 August â French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world".
- 15 October â Emir Abdelkader of Algeria declares a jihad against the French.
Births
- 19 January â Paul Cézanne, painter (died 1906)[1]
- 27 January â Marie Adolphe Carnot, chemist, mining engineer and politician (died 1920)
- 16 March â Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (died 1907)
- 17 March â Louis Ricard, lawyer and politician (died 1921)
- 5 May â Louis Ãmile Javal, ophthalmologist (died 1907)
- 21 May â Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (died 1873)
- 9 August â Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (died 1903)
- 20 August â Gaston du Bousquet, steam locomotive engineer (died 1910)
- 9 October â Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (died 1882)
Full date unknown
- Eugène Petit (1839â1886), flower painter and textile designer[2]
- Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (died 1906)
Deaths
- 10 January â Charles Philippe Lafont, violinist and composer (born 1781)
- 2 March â Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon I (born 1802)
- 18 March â Victoire Babois, poet and writer of elegies (born 1760)[3]
- 2 April â Toussaint-Bernard Ãméric-David, archaeologist and writer on art (born 1755)
- 9 May â Joseph Fiévée, journalist, novelist, essayist and playwright (born 1767)
- 13 May â Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, statesman and journalist (born 1763)
- 19 July â Maurice de Guérin, poet (born 1810)
- 30 September â Joseph François Michaud, historian and publicist (born 1767)
- 26 December â Laurent Jean François Truguet, admiral (born 1752)
- 31 December â Hyacinthe-Louis de Quelen, Archbishop of Paris (born 1778)