1836 in France
Events from the year 1836 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 29 July - The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is inaugurated.
- Eugène Schneider and his brother Adolphe Schneider purchase a bankrupt ironworks near the town of Le Creusot in the Burgundy region and found the steelworks and engineering company Schneider Frères & Cie.
- Louis Napoleon, the nephew of the former Emperor, launches the Strasbourg Coup, a failed attempt to seize power
Births
- 3 January - Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, politician
- 14 January - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer
- 21 February - Léo Delibes, composer
- 26 March - Mélanie de Pourtalès, salonnière and courtier
- 31 May - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer
- 26 June - Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur
- 4 October - Juliette Adam, writer
- 15 October - James Tissot, painter
- 20 December - Alfred Grandidier, naturalist and explorer
Full date unknown
- Jean Pierre Philippe Lampué, photographer
Deaths
- 9 January - Pierre François Lacenaire, poet and criminal, double murderer
- 21 January - André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac, naturalist
- 7 March - Français of Nantes, politician and author
- 10 June - André-Marie Ampère, physicist
- 26 June - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, army captain, writer of La Marseillaise
- 23 July - Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart, astronomer
- 25 July - Armand Carrel, writer
- 21 August - Claude-Louis Navier, engineer and physicist
- 17 September - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, botanist
- 30 November - Pierre-Simon Girard, mathematician and engineer