1815 in France

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Events from the year 1815 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch –
  • abdicated 20 March: Louis XVIII
  • 20 March-22 June: Napoleon I
  • 22 June-July 7: Napoleon II
  • starting July 7: Louis XVIII

Events

• 3 January - Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
• 26 February - Napoleon escaped from Elba.
• 1 March - Napoleon lands at Antibes.
• 20 March - Napoleon arrives back in Paris, ending the First Restoration of Louis XVIII of France.
• 22 April - Constitutional Referendum held.
• 22 April - Charter of 1815 signed bringing in a new French constitution.
• 1 May - Explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville marries Adèle Dumont D'Urville (née Pepin) in Toulon.^[1]
• 16 June - Battle of Quatre Bras, inconclusive result.
• 16 June - Battle of Ligny, French defeat Prussian forces.
• 18 June - Battle of Waterloo, decisive defeat of French forces.
• 18 June-19 June - Battle of Wavre, inconclusive result.
• 24 June - Napoleon announces his abdication.
• 28 June - Battle of La Suffel, French victory over Austrian forces.
• 1 July - Battle of Rocquencourt, French victory over Prussian forces.
• 3 July - Battle of Issy, French defeat by Prussian forces.
• 8 July - Louis XVIII of France returns.
• 15 July - Napoleon I surrenders and is transported to England.
• 14 August - Elections to Chamber of Deputies produces a heavy ultra-royalist majority.
• 3 October - Fall of the Mars meteorite Chassigny in Chassigny, Haute-Marne.
• 7 October - Chamber of Deputies (Chambre introuvable) first assembles.
• 15 October - Napoleon begins exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 20 November - Treaty of Paris signed following defeat and second abdication of Napoleon.

Births

January to June

• 21 February - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter and sculptor (died 1891).
• 12 March - Louis Jules Trochu, soldier and statesman (died 1896).
• 28 March - Arsène Houssaye, novelist and poet (died 1896).
• 8 April - Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer, theologian, critic and politician (died 1889).
• 27 April - Alexandre Martin, socialist statesman (died 1895).
• 5 May - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (died 1888).
• 8 May - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist (died 1888).

July to December

• 6 July - Louis Pierre Gratiolet, anatomist and zoologist (died 1865).
• 24 July - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (died 1893).
• 16 August - Madame Céleste, actress (died 1882).
• 26 August - Bernard Jauréguiberry, Admiral and statesman (died 1887).
• 21 December - Thomas Couture, painter and teacher (died 1879).

Full date unknown

• Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (died 1886).
• Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer (died 1893).
• Jacques-Eugene Feyen, painter (died 1908).
• Louis Dominique Girard, hydraulic engineer (died 1871).
• Honoré Jacquinot, surgeon and zoologist (died 1887).
• Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon (died 1868).
• Louis Léonard de Loménie, author (died 1878).
• Jules Achille Noël, painter (died 1881).
• Félix Esquirou de Parieu, statesman (died 1893).

Deaths

January to June

• 11 January - Jean-Baptiste de Caffarelli du Falga, churchman (born 1763).
• 18 January - Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (born 1738).
• 12 February - Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, General (born 1768).
• 1 June - Louis Alexandre Berthier, Marshal of France (born 1753).
• 18 June - Claude-Etienne Michel, General (born 1772).
• 18 June - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, General (born 1766).

July to December

• 2 August - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, Marshal of France (born 1763).
• 14 August - Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur, Bishop (born 1740).
• 20 September - Nicolas Desmarest, geologist (born 1725).
• 13 October - Joachim Murat, Marshal of France, brother-in-law of Napoleon (born 1767).
• 22 October - Claude Lecourbe, General (born 1759).
• 11 November - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, author (born 1748).
• 7 December - Michel Ney, Marshal of France (born 1769).

Full date unknown

• Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu, painter.
• Charles de la Bédoyère, General (born 1786).
• Philippe Henri, Comte de Grimoard, soldier and military writer (born 1753).

References

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