1815 in France
Events from the year 1815 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch -
- * Until 20 March: Louis XVIII
- * 20 March – 22 June: Napoleon I
- * 22 June – 7 July: Napoleon II
- * Starting 8 July: Louis XVIII
- Prime Minister -
- * 9 July – 26 September: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- * Starting 26 September: Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
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.
- 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 in Toulon.
- 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 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 first assembles.
- 15 October - Napoleon begins exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 20 November - Treaty of [Paris (1815)|Treaty of Paris] signed following defeat and second abdication of Napoleon. Allied Occupation of France continues until November 1818.
Births
January to June
- 21 February - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter and sculptor
- 24 February - Jules Achille Noël, painter
- 12 March - Louis Jules Trochu, soldier and statesman
- 28 March - Arsène Houssaye, novelist and poet
- 8 April - Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer, theologian, critic and politician
- 9 April - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer
- 13 April - Félix Esquirou de Parieu, statesman
- 25 April - Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon
- 27 April - Alexandre Martin, socialist statesman
- 5 May - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist
- 8 May - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist
July to December
- 6 July - Louis Pierre Gratiolet, anatomist and zoologist
- 24 July - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer
- 16 August - Madame Céleste, actress
- 26 August - Bernard Jauréguiberry, Admiral and statesman
- 3 December - Louis de Loménie, scholar, essayist and biographer
- 21 December - Thomas Couture, painter and teacher
Full date unknown
- Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor
- Jacques-Eugène Feyen, painter
- Louis Dominique Girard, hydraulic engineer
- Honoré Jacquinot, surgeon and zoologist
Deaths
January to June
- 11 January - Jean-Baptiste de Caffarelli du Falga, churchman
- 15 January - Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Horatio Nelson
- 18 January - Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer
- 12 February - Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, General
- 17 April - Charles de la Bédoyère, General
- 1 June - Louis Alexandre Berthier, Marshal of France
- 18 June - Claude-Etienne Michel, General
- 18 June - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, General
July to December
- 2 August - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, Marshal of France
- 14 August - Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur, Bishop
- 20 September - Nicolas Desmarest, geologist
- 13 October - Joachim Murat, Marshal of France, brother-in-law of Napoleon
- 22 October - Claude Lecourbe, General
- 11 November - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, author
- 7 December - Michel Ney, Marshal of France
Full date unknown
- Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu, painter
- Philippe Henri, Comte de Grimoard, soldier and military writer