1831 in France

Events from the year 1831 in France.

Incumbents

10 March - The French Foreign Legion is founded.
5 July - 1831 French legislative election.
2 August - The Dutch Ten Days' Campaign against Belgium is halted by a French army.
22 November - In the first of the Canut Revolts, after a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties, rebellious silk workers seize Lyon.

16 March - Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, is published by Gosselin in Paris.
19 March - The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism".
Frédéric Chopin arrives in Paris.

12 March - Joseph Gérard, Roman Catholic missionary priest
15 April - Eugène Poubelle, lawyer and diplomat who introduces the dustbin to Paris
7 July - Eugène Ketterer, composer and pianist
17 July - Amédée Mannheim, inventor of a slide rule
15 August - Pierre Petit, photographer
12 October - Ernest Boulanger, politician and economist
31 October - Paul Durand-Ruel, modern art dealer
23 December - Marie-Azélie Guérin-Martin, Roman Catholic lay religious, canonized