1816 in France
Events from the year 1816 in FranceIncumbents
- Monarch - Louis XVIII
- Prime Minister - Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
Events
- 2 July - French frigate Méduse 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.
- 25 September and 4 October - 1816 French legislative election.
Arts and culture
- The Académie des Beaux-Arts established
Finance
- Caisse des dépôts et consignations established
Births
- 18 February - Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright
- 19 February - Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, inventor and engineer
- 14 July - Arthur de Gobineau, aristocrat, novelist, diplomat, travel writer and racist theorist
- 4 September - François Bazin, opera composer
- 29 September - Paul Féval, père, novelist and dramatist
Deaths
- 2 January - Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, chemist and politician
- 16 January - Jacques-René Tenon, surgeon
- 31 March - Jean-François Ducis, dramatist.
- 8 April - Julie Billiart, religious leader
- 28 April - Edme Mentelle, geographer
- 4 May - Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina
- 7 June - Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral, clergyman
- 4 August - François-André Vincent, painter
- 7 August - François-Joseph Duret, sculptor
- 30 September - Joseph Caillot, actor and singer
- 18 October - Claude Dejoux, sculptor
- 21 December - Jean-Pierre-André Amar, politician
Exact date missing
- François-Guillaume Ménageot, painter
