1824 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XVIII, then Charles X
• Prime Minister - Joseph de Villèle

  Events

• 25 February - Legislative election held.
• 6 March - Legislative election held.
• 16 September - Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France.
• Cimetière du Montparnasse is established.

  Arts and literature

• The first collection of poetry by Victor Hugo, Nouvelles Odes et Poésies Diverses, is published.

  Births

• 11 January - Théophile Nicolas Noblot, politician
• 15 January - Marie Duplessis, courtesan
• 11 May - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor
• 28 June - Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist
• 12 July - Eugène Boudin, painter
• 27 July - Alexandre Dumas, fils, writer, author and playwright
• 6 December - Emmanuel Frémiet, sculptor
• 14 December - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter
• 25 December - Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de la Chavanne, jurist

  Full date unknown

• Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan, actress

  Deaths

• 26 January - Théodore Géricault, painter and lithographer
• 27 January - Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré, architect
• 21 February - Eugène de Beauharnais, soldier and stepson of Napoleon
• 16 June - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, statesman
• 21 June - Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist and playwright
• 20 July - Maine de Biran, philosopher
• 16 September - Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre
• 20 October - Jean-Louis-Paul-François, 5th duc de Noailles, scientist
• 24 October - André Thouin, botanist
• 9 December - Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, painter