Events from the year 1816 in France
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XVIII Prime Minister – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
Events 8 May – Divorce is abolished by the Chambre introuvable, after having been permitted following the French Revolution. 2 July – French frigate Méduse (1810) runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government. 6 September – King Louis XVIII dissolves the Chambre introuvable, the legislature that had been elected after the Second Restoration re-established the old monarchy.Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2002) p157. 25 September and 4 October – 1816 French legislative election.
Arts and culture 21 March – The Institut de France is reorganized by Louis XVIII into four royal academies: a revived Académie française; the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; the Royal Academy of Sciences; and the Académie des Beaux-Arts.Louis L. Bucciarelli and Nancy Dworsky, Sophie Germain: An Essay in the History of the Theory of Elasticity (Springer, 2012) p138.
Finance 28 April – The Caisse des dépôts et consignations, a public investment body, is created by Louis XVIII. Mutuelle de L'assurance contre L'incendie ("L'Anciente Mutuelle"), predecessor of Axa, the global insurance and financial services company, is founded in Rouen.
Births 18 February – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (died 1913) 19 February – Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, inventor and engineer (died 1889) 14 July – Arthur de Gobineau, aristocrat, novelist, diplomat, travel writer and racist theorist (died 1882 in Italy) 4 September – François Bazin, opera composer (died 1878) 29 September – Paul Féval, père, novelist and dramatist (died 1887)
Deaths
2 January – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, chemist and politician (born 1737) 16 January – Jacques-René Tenon, surgeon (born 1724) 31 March – Jean-François Ducis, dramatist (born 1733) 8 April – Julie Billiart, religious leader (born 1751) 28 April – Edme Mentelle, geographer (born 1730) 4 May – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (born 1743) 7 June – Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral, clergyman (born 1746) 4 August – François-André Vincent, painter (born 1746) 7 August – François-Joseph Duret, sculptor (born 1729) 30 September – Joseph Caillot, actor and singer (born 1733) 18 October – Claude Dejoux, sculptor (born 1732) 21 December – Jean-Pierre-André Amar, politician (born 1755)
Exact date missing François-Guillaume Ménageot, painter (born 1744)
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