1842 in France
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Events from the year 1842 in France.
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Incumbents
Events
- 8 May â Versailles train crash at Meudon, results in the deaths of at least 55 passengers.
- 9 July â Legislative election held.
Births
January to June
- 31 January â Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, adventurer (died 1890)
- 13 March â Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist (died 1929)
- 18 March â Stéphane Mallarmé, poet and critic (died 1898)
- 25 March â Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist (died 1932)
- 4 April â Ãdouard Lucas, mathematician (died 1891)
- 17 April â Maurice Rouvier, statesman (died 1911)
- 10 June â Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, painter and sculptor (died 1923)
July to December
- 30 July â Auguste Bouché-Leclercq, historian (died 1923)
- 14 August â Jean Gaston Darboux, mathematician (died 1917)
- 25 August â Ãdouard Louis Trouessart, zoologist (died 1927)
- 28 August â Placide Louis Chapelle, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans (died 1905)
- 30 September â Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg, Archbishop of Rennes and Cardinal (died 1921)
- 6 October â Gustave Charles Fagniez, historian and economist (died 1927)
- 8 December â Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly, astronomer (died 1926)
Deaths
January to June
- 7 January â Charles Berny d'Ouvillé, miniaturist (born 1775)
- 19 January â Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon, jurist and politician (born 1749)
- 23 March â Stendhal, writer (born 1783)
- 30 March â Ãlisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, painter (born 1755)[1]
- 8 May â Jules Dumont d'Urville, explorer and French Navy officer, and his wife Adèle, killed in Versailles rail accident (born 1790)
- 15 May â Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, atlas-maker, member of Napoleon's entourage and member of the military (born 1766)
- 24 June â Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois, engineer (born 1776)
July to December
- 13 July â Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Prince Royal of France (born 1810)
- 19 July â Pierre Joseph Pelletier, chemist (born 1788)
- 25 July â Dominique Jean Larrey, military surgeon (born 1766)
- 20 October â Alexandre de Laborde, antiquary, liberal politician and writer (born 1773)