1830 in France

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Events from the year 1830 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles X (abdicated 2 August), Vacant (2–9 August), then Louis Philippe I (from 9 August)

Events

• July 5 – French
  invasion of Algiers in 1830.^[1]
• July 17 – Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent (#7454) for a sewing machine. It chain stitches at 200/minute.
• July 25 – Rioting breaks out in Paris against Charles X
• July 27–29 –
  Ordinance of St. Cloud by King Charles X of France and clash against the National Guard – 1,800 rioters and 300 soldiers die and the king has to flee the capital.^[1]
• August 2 – Abdication of King
  Henry, Count of Chambord
  , who is not allowed to take the throne.
• August 9 –
  The Duke of Orleans becomes King Louis Philippe. François-René de Chateaubriand
  sacrifices his political career by refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the new king and retires to write his memoirs.
• August 13 – Louis Philippe appoints the
  Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister
  .
• November 2 – Jacques Laffitte succeeds the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister.

Arts and literature

• 25 February – The première of Victor Hugo's play Hernani in Paris is marked by protests from an audience who recognise it as an attack on Classicism.^[1][2]
• c. October – Eugène Delacroix's paints Liberty Leading the People commemorating the July Revolution.^[1]
• November – Publication of Stendhal's historical psychological novel The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) in Paris.^[1]
• 5 December – World premiere of Hector Berlioz's most famous work, Symphonie fantastique, at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Births

• 23 February – Henri Meilhac, dramatist and opera librettist (died 1897
  )
• 10 April – Pierre Paul Dehérain, chemist and botanist (died 1902
  )
• 10 July – Camille Pissarro, painter (died 1903
  )
• Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 (died 1914
  )
• 17 December – Jules de Goncourt, writer (died 1870
  )

• 4 February – Marc Antoine de Beaumont, nobleman and soldier (born 1763
  )
• 15 February – Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette, soldier and politician (born 1769
  )
• Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (born 1764
  )
• 31 July – Joseph Philippe de Clairville, botanist and entomologist (born 1742
  )
• 30 August – Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (born 1756
  )
• 7 November – Joseph Barbanègre, soldier (born 1772
  )
• Charles Simon Catel, composer and teacher (born 1773
  )