• Source: 1839 in France

      • Events from the year 1839 in France.


      Incumbents


      Monarch – Louis Philippe I


      Events


      9 January – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
      2 March – Legislative election held.
      12–13 May – 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 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September with the prize of 400 Francs).
      6 July – Legislative election held.
      19 August – French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world".
      15 October – Emir Abdelkader of Algeria declares a jihad against the French.


      Births



      19 January – Paul Cézanne, painter (died 1906)
      27 January – Marie Adolphe Carnot, chemist, mining engineer and politician (died 1920)
      16 March – Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (died 1907)
      17 March – Louis Ricard, lawyer and politician (died 1921)
      5 May – Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (died 1907)
      21 May – Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (died 1873)
      9 August – Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (died 1903)
      20 August – Gaston du Bousquet, steam locomotive engineer (died 1910)
      9 October – Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (died 1882)


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      Eugène Petit (1839–1886), flower painter and textile designer
      Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (died 1906)


      Deaths



      10 January – Charles Philippe Lafont, violinist and composer (born 1781)
      2 March – Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon I (born 1802)
      18 March – Victoire Babois, poet and writer of elegies (born 1760)
      2 April – Toussaint-Bernard Éméric-David, archaeologist and writer on art (born 1755)
      9 May – Joseph Fiévée, journalist, novelist, essayist and playwright (born 1767)
      13 May – Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, statesman and journalist (born 1763)
      19 July – Maurice de Guérin, poet (born 1810)
      30 September – Joseph François Michaud, historian and publicist (born 1767)
      26 December – Laurent Jean François Truguet, admiral (born 1752)
      31 December – Hyacinthe-Louis de Quelen, Archbishop of Paris (born 1778)


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