Events from the year 1814 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Napoleon I (abdicated 6 April), then Louis XVIII
Events
26 January - First Battle of Saint-Dizier, French victory over Russian forces. 29 January - Battle of Brienne, French victory over Prussian and Russian forces. 1 February - Battle of La Rothière, Prussian victory over French forces. 10 February - Battle of Champaubert, decisive French victory over Prussia/Russia. 11 February - Battle of Montmirail, French victory. 12 February - Battle of Château-Thierry, French victory against Prussian forces. 14 February - Battle of Vauchamps, French victory. 17 February - Battle of Mormant, French victory. 18 February - Battle of Montereau, French victory over Austrian forces. 27 February - Battle of Bar-sur-Aube, Austrian victory. 27 February - Peninsular War: Battle of Orthez, Anglo-Portuguese victory over French forces. 7 March - Battle of Craonne, French victory. 9 March-10 March - Battle of Laon, French defeat. 10 March - Napoleon rejects the proposed Treaty of Chaumont. 12 March - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême enters Bordeaux, marking the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. 19 March - Battle of Reims, French victory. 20 March-21 March - Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, Austrian victory over French forces. 25 March - Battle of La Fère-Champenoise, Prussian victory. 26 March - Second Battle of Saint-Dizier, French victory over Russian forces. 30 March - Battle of Montmartre, Austrian/Prussian victory. 30 March-31 March - Battle of Paris, decisive victory for Austria/Russia/Prussia. 31 March - Paris is occupied by Austrian and Prussian forces. 6 April - Napoleon abdicates. Louis XVIII accedes to the throne. 10 April - Peninsular War: Battle of Toulouse, indecisive. 11 April - Treaty of Fontainebleau, Napoleon is stripped of his powers as ruler of the French Empire. 30 May - Treaty of Paris, ends the war between France and the Sixth Coalition and Napoleon is exiled to Elba.
Births
January to March 6 January - Hyacinthe de Valroger, Roman Catholic priest and Oratorian (died 1876) 15 January - Pierre-Jules Hetzel, editor and publisher (died 1886) 17 January - Hippolyte Lucas, entomologist (died 1899) 27 January - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, architect and theorist (died 1879) 30 January - Jules Lequier, philosopher (died 1862) 6 February - Auguste Chapdelaine, Christian missionary to China (died 1856) 26 February - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, geologist and meteorologist (died 1876) 28 February - Edmond Frémy, chemist (died 1894)
April to June 19 April - Louis Amédée Achard, novelist (died 1875) 1 May - Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, Jew who became a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary (died 1884) 14 May - Siméon-François Berneux, Roman Catholic missionary killed in Korea (died 1866) 15 May - Antoine Chintreuil, painter (died 1873) 21 May - Louis Janmot, painter and poet (died 1892) 22 May - Joseph-Louis Lambot, inventor of ferro-cement (died 1887) 1 June - François Ponsard, dramatist (died 1867) 3 June - Louis Alfred Becquerel, physicist and medical researcher (died 1862) 5 June - Pierre Wantzel, mathematician (died 1848) 25 June - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, geologist (died 1896)
July to September 8 September - Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist (died 1874) 16 September - Émile Saisset, philosopher (died 1863) 17 September - Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort, writer and politician (died 1892) 22 September - Auguste Jean François Grenier, doctor and entomologist (died 1890) 23 September - Henri de Castellane, politician and nobleman (died 1847)
October to December 3 October - Hervé Faye, astronomer (died 1902) 4 October - Jean-François Millet, painter (died 1875) 11 October - Jean-Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (died 1888) 13 October - Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat, historian and archaeologist (died 1882) 25 October - Louis, Duke of Nemours, second son of King Louis Philippe I (died 1896) 5 November - Alfred de Bougy, poet and author (died 1874) 17 November - François-Louis Français, painter (died 1897) 30 November - Eugène Rouher, statesman (died 1884)
Full date unknown Louis-Auguste Bisson, photographer (died 1876) Pierre Bossan, architect (died 1888)
Deaths
January to June 14 January - Charles Bossut, mathematician (born 1730) 21 January - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, writer and botanist (born 1737) 30 January - Stephen Rochefontaine, military engineer in the Continental Army in America (born 1755) 2 February - Jean-Nicolas Démeunier, author and politician (born 1751) 27 February - Julien Louis Geoffroy, literary critic (born 1743) 13 March - Louis François II de Bourbon, prince de Conti, aristocrat (born 1734) 26 March - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, physician who proposed the use of a mechanical device to carry out death penalties (born 1738) 29 March - Claude Michel, sculptor (born 1738) 31 March - Pierre Sonnerat, naturalist and explorer (born 1748) 25 April - Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist and writer (born 1740) 29 May - Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon and thus the first Empress of the French (born 1763) 28 June - Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé, soldier and politician (born 1747)
July to December 5 July - Jean Baptiste Le Sueur Fontaine, actor and theatre director (born 1745) 7 September - Pierre Victor, baron Malouet, publicist and politician (born 1740) 13 September - Louis-François Bertin, journalist (born 1766) 17 September - Jacques Bernard d'Anselme, General (born 1740) 1 October - Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, entomologist (born 1756) 30 November - Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, draughtsman, illustrator and engraver (born 1741) 2 December - Marquis de Sade, aristocrat, revolutionary and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography (born 1740) 11 December - Marie-Louise O'Murphy, child-courtesan, one of the several mistresses of King Louis XV (born 1737)
Full date unknown Abbé Aubert, dramatist, poet and journalist (born 1731) Pierre Patte, architect (born 1723) Jean-François Pierre Peyron, painter (born 1744) Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt, archaeologist and historian (born 1730)
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