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Events from the year 1839 in France.
Incumbents
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)[1]
 - 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)
 
Full date unknown
- Eugène Petit (1839–1886), flower painter and textile designer[2]
 - 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)[3]
 - 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)
 
References
- ↑ "Paul Cézanne | French artist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
 - ↑ Burlington Paintings
 - ↑ Séché, Alphonse (1908). Les Muses Francais:: Anthologie des Femmes-Poètes (1200 à 1891) (in French). Paris: Louis Michaud. p. 168.
 
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