1840 in France

none 1840 Events from the year 1840 in France. Incumbents Monarch – Louis Philippe I Events 1 January - Definitive adoption of the metric system and abandonment of the units of measurement of the Ancien Régime (which had been reinstated by Napoleon I on February 12, 1812, following their initial abolition on August 1, 1793), pursuant to the law of July 4, 1837.Jean B. Souquet: Métrologie française ou manuel théorique et pratique du système métrique, 1840, lshBAAAAcAAJ 336 15 January - General Bugeaud raises the issue of French policy in Algeria before the Chamber; in his view, the choice is between immediate evacuation or total occupation.Michèle Ressi, L'Histoire de France en 1000 citations, 2011, isbn 978-2-212-00200-3, VJZkhlF6AiAC 335 20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica. 31 January - Auguste Blanqui is sentenced to death by the Court of Peers. The sentence is commuted to life imprisonment due to the Barbès precedent.Maurice Dommanget: Auguste Blanqui : Des origines à la révolution de 1848. Premiers combats et premières prisons. 1869, p 215, ISBN 978-3-11-139592-0 1 March - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister. 27 April – The Duke of Nemours, the second son of the king, marries Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the Château de Saint-Cloud 30 September - The frigate Belle Poule arrives in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, returning the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena. He is buried in Les Invalides. 15 December – The Return of Napoleon is completed with a public procession in Paris before he is buried in Les Invalides. Metric system again mandatory across France. Arts and literature 11 February - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris. Births 23 March -Louis-Émile Bertin, naval engineer (died 1924) 2 April - Émile Zola, novelist (died 1902) 22 April - Odilon Redon, painter and printmaker (died 1916) 13 May - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (died 1897) 20 October - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (died 1909) 12 November - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (died 1917) 14 November - Claude Monet, Impressionist painter (died 1926)Claude Monet Biography, Art, Water Lilies, Haystacks, Impression: Sunrise, & Facts Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claude-Monet www.britannica.com 7 June 2022 en 1 December - Marie Bracquemond, Impressionist painter (died 1916) Deaths 13 February - Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (born 1770) 27 February - John Tessier, French Sulpician priest (born 1758) 22 March - Étienne Bobillier, mathematician (born 1798) 25 April - Siméon Denis Poisson, mathematician and physicist (born 1781) 7 June - Népomucène Lemercier, poet and dramatist (born 1771) 20 June - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, painter and botanist (born 1759) 7 September - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, Marshal of France (born 1765) References 1840 France France Category:1840s in France Category:Years of the 19th century in France