1818 in France
Events from the year 1818 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Louis XVIII
- Prime Minister - Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, then Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles
Events
- 11 February - Marie André Cantillon attempts to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, commander of troops occupying France, in Paris.
- 29 July - Physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light" to the French Academy of Sciences, precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
- 28 August – The Equestrian statue of Henry IV is inaugurated in Paris, replacing an earlier one that had been destroyed during the French Revolution.
- 1 October - Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle is convened.
- 5 October - Claudine Thévenet founds the Roman Catholic order Religieuses de Jésus-Marie in Lyon.
- 30 November – The Allied Occupation of France ends as the last troops depart in line with the agreement at Aix-la-Chapelle.
Births
January to June
- 26 January - Amédée de Noé, caricaturist and lithographer.
- 7 February - François Paul Meurice, dramatist.
- 18 May - Eugène Bouchut, physician.
- 3 June - Louis Faidherbe, general and colonial administrator.
- 4 June - Élie-Abel Carrière, botanist.
- 13 June - Jean-Jules Allasseur, sculptor.
- 18 June - Charles Gounod, composer.
July to December
- 8 August - Joseph Roumanille, poet.
- 12 August - Edmond-Frederic Le Blant, archaeologist and historian.
- 14 August - François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville, admiral.
- 18 August - Henri Le Secq, painter and photographer.
- 13 September - Gustave Aimard, traveller and writer.
- 26 October - Louis Buffet, statesman.
- 26 November - Louis Aubert-Roche, physician
Full date unknown
- Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot, naturalist and entomologist.
- Denis Vrain-Lucas, forger.
Deaths
- 30 January - Claude Matthieu, Count Gardane, general and diplomat.
- 23 April - Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure, Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium.
- 1 May - François-Joseph Bélanger, architect and decorator.
- 28 July - Gaspard Monge, mathematician.
- 19 October
- *André Antoine Bernard, lawyer and revolutionary.
- *Antoine-François Bertrand de Molleville, government minister.
- 28 October - Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, politician and Marshal of France.
- 25 December - Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, Marshal of France.
- Full date unknown - Adrien-Nicolas Piédefer, marquis de La Salle, writer and cavalry officer.