1850 in France

none July 2026 1850 Events from the year 1850 in France. Events 15 April - Angers Bridge collapses with around 480 soldiers marching across it; about 226 are killed. 16 May - Battleship Le Napoléon is launched. France begins to transport colonists to Algeria. Births 14 January - Pierre Loti,Smith Christopher https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.o002088 Loti, Pierre 2002 Oxford University Press Oxford Music Online sailor and writer (died 1923) 31 May - Alphonse Pénaud, aeronautical pioneer (died 1880) 5 August - Guy de Maupassant, writer (died 1893) 6 August - Henri Chantavoine, writer (died 1918) 25 August - Charles Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913 (died 1935) Deaths January to June 22 January - William Joseph Chaminade, priest, beatified (born 1761) 22 March - Sophie d'Arbouville, writer (born 1810) 16 April - Marie Tussaud, wax sculptor (born 1761) 1 May - Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, zoologist and anatomist (born 1777) 9 May - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, chemist and physicist (born 1778) July to December 18 August - Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (born 1799) 26 August - Louis-Philippe of France, last king of France (born 1773) 9 November - François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, writer on ethics, political science and political economy (born 1773) 10 December - François Sulpice Beudant, mineralogist and geologist (born 1787) 24 December - Frédéric Bastiat, writer and political economist (born 1801) Full date unknown Armand-Benjamin Caillau, Roman Catholic priest, a missionary and writer (born 1794) References 1850 France France Category:1850s in France Category:Years of the 19th century in France