1816 in France

Events from the year '''1816 in France'''

Incumbents

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.
25 September and 4 October - 1816 French legislative election.

28 April - The Caisse des dépôts et consignations, a public investment body, is created by Louis XVIII.
Mutuelle de L'assurance contre L'incendie, predecessor of Axa, the global insurance and financial services company, is founded in Rouen.

18 February - Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright
19 February - Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, inventor and engineer
14 July - Arthur de Gobineau, aristocrat, novelist, diplomat, travel writer and racist theorist
4 September - François Bazin, opera composer
29 September - Paul Féval, père, novelist and dramatist