• Source: 1826 in France

      • Events from the year 1826 in France.


      Incumbents


      Monarch – Charles X
      Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle


      Events



      15 January - The newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly.
      June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.
      19 August - Louis Christophe François Hachette purchases the Brédif bookshop on rue Pierre-Sarrazin, Paris, origin of the Hachette publishing business.
      3 November - The Paris Stock Exchange opens at the Palais de la Bourse.
      Unknown date - Société alsacienne de constructions mécaniques founded; becomes part of Alstom, global railway rolling stock manufacturer.


      Arts and literature


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


      Births


      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)


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      Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (died 1863)
      Louis-Arsène Delaunay, actor (died 1903)


      Deaths


      3 January
      Marie Le Masson Le Golft, naturalist (born 1750)
      Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (born 1770)
      22 January - Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, politician (born 1746)
      2 February - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician, epicure and gastronome (born 1755)
      1 July - Jean-Baptiste Stouf, sculptor (born 1742)
      8 October - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter (born 1768)
      5 November - Élie Halévy (Chalfan), Hebrew poet and author (born 1760)


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