1839 in France
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Events from the year 1839 in France.
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[edit] 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 - Abd al-Kader declares a jihad against the French.
[edit] Births
- 19 January - Paul Cézanne, painter (d.1906).
- 27 January - Marie Adolphe Carnot, chemist, mining engineer and politician (d.1920).
- 16 March - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (d.1907).
- 5 May - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (d.1907).
- 21 May - Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (d.1873).
- 9 August - Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (d.1903).
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- Gaston du Bousquet, engineer (d.1910).
- Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (d.1882).
- Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (d.1906).
[edit] Deaths
- 10 January - Charles Philippe Lafont, violinist and composer (b.1781).
- 2 March - Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon I (b.1802).
- 2 April - Toussaint-Bernard Éméric-David, archaeologist and writer on art (b.1755).
- 9 May - Joseph Fiévée, journalist, novelist, essayist and playwright (b.1767).
- 13 May - Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, statesman and journalist (b.1763).
- 19 July - Maurice de Guérin, poet (b.1810).
- 30 September - Joseph François Michaud, historian and publicist (b.1767).
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- Laurent Jean François Truguet, admiral (b.1752).
