Events from the year 1836 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis Philippe I
Events 29 July - The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is inaugurated. Eugène Schneider and his brother Adolphe Schneider purchase a bankrupt ironworks near the town of Le Creusot in the Burgundy region and found the steelworks and engineering company Schneider Frères & Cie. Louis Napoleon, the nephew of the former Emperor, launches the Strasbourg Coup, a failed attempt to seize power
Births 3 January - Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, politician (died 1897) 14 January - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (died 1904) 21 February - Léo Delibes, composer (died 1891) 26 March - Mélanie de Pourtalès, salonnière and courtier (died 1914) 31 May - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer (died 1932) 26 June - Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (died 1918) 4 October - Juliette Adam, writer (died 1936) 15 October - James Tissot, painter (died 1902) 20 December - Alfred Grandidier, naturalist and explorer (died 1921)
Full date unknown Jean Pierre Philippe Lampué, photographer (died 1924)
Deaths 9 January - Pierre François Lacenaire, poet and criminal, double murderer (executed) (born 1803) 21 January - André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac, naturalist (born 1786) 7 March - Français of Nantes, politician and author (born 1756) 10 June - André-Marie Ampère, physicist (born 1775) 26 June - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, army captain, writer of La Marseillaise (born 1760) 23 July - Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart, astronomer (TB) (born 1800) 25 July - Armand Carrel, writer (duel) (born 1800) 21 August - Claude-Louis Navier, engineer and physicist (born 1785) 17 September - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, botanist (born 1748) 30 November - Pierre-Simon Girard, mathematician and engineer (born 1765)
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