1803 in France

Events from the year 1803 in France.

Incumbents

The French Consulate
Events
30 January
*Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
*Napoleon authorizes the celebration of a Joan of Arc feast in Orléans on 8 May.
30 April - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
May - The First Consul of France Citizen Bonaparte begins making preparations to invade England.
18 May - The United Kingdom redeclares war on France, after French refuse to withdraw from Dutch territory.
5 July - Convention of Artlenburg, the surrender of the Electorate of Hanover to Napoleon's army.
18 November - Haitian Revolution: Battle of Vertières, decisive Haitian victory over the French colonial army.
Births

16 February - Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, politician
3 March - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter
15 March - Alexandre Boreau, pharmacist and botanist
7 April - Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist
24 April - Jean Étienne Bercé, entomologist
24 May - Charles Lucien Bonaparte, naturalist and ornithologist
July to December
22 July - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker
24 July - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic
8 September - Léon Faucher, politician and economist
12 September - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet
13 September - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist
23 September - Jacques Crétineau-Joly, journalist and historian
28 September - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser
28 September - Prosper Mérimée, dramatist, historian and archaeologist
11 December - Hector Berlioz, composer
24 December - Jean-Rémy Bessieux, founder of Roman Catholic mission in Gabon and first Bishop there
Full date unknown
Hélène Jégado, domestic servant and serial killer, executed
Deaths