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Events from the year 1826 in France.
Incumbents
Events

The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, c. 1826
- 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.
 - 19 August - Louis Christophe François Hachette purchases the Brédif bookshop on rue Pierre-Sarrazin, Paris, origin of the Hachette publishing business.[3]
 - 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)
 
Full date unknown
- 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)
 - 8 October - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter (born 1768)
 - 5 November - Élie Halévy (Chalfan), Hebrew poet and author (born 1760)
 
Full date unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Stouf, sculptor (born 1742)
 
See also
References
- ↑ Sand, George (1 January 1991). Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand. SUNY Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7914-0580-2.
 - ↑ "Joseph, count de Villèle | French politician | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
 - ↑ Bouvier, Béatrice (2001). "Pour une histoire de l'architecture des librairies: le Quartier latin de 1793 à 1914". Livraisons d'Histoire de l'Architecture. 2: 14. doi:10.3406/lha.2001.880.
 
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