1826 in France

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Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s See also: Other events of 1826 Timeline of French history

Events from the year 1826 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch – Charles X

15 January - The newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly.

June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.

The Hachette publishing business in Paris is established by Louis Christophe François Hachette.

The second novel by Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, is published.

6 April - Gustave Moreau, painter (died 1898).

5 May - Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoléon III (died 1920).

18 May - Emile-Justin Menier, pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician (died 1881).

29 June - Charles Ernest Beulé, archaeologist and politician (died 1874).

24 October - Léopold Victor Delisle, bibliophile and historian (died 1910).

Louis Arsene Delaunay, actor (died 1903).

3 January - Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (born 1770).

2 February - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician, epicure and gastronome (born 1755).

8 October - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter (born 1768).

5 November - Élie Halévy (Chalfan), Hebrew poet and author (born 1760).

Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, politician (born 1746).

Jean-Baptiste Stouf, sculptor (born 1742).

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