1842 in France

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Events from the year 1842 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis Philippe I

Events

• 8 May -
  Versailles train crash at Meudon
  , results in the deaths of at least 55 passengers.
• 9 July - Legislative election held.

Births

January to June

• 31 January - Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, adventurer (died 1890)
• 13 March - Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist (died 1929)
• 18 March - Stéphane Mallarmé, poet and critic (died 1898)
• 25 March -
  ophthalmologist (died 1932
  )
• 4 April - Édouard Lucas, mathematician (died 1891)
• 17 April - Maurice Rouvier, statesman (died 1911)
• 10 June -
  Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, painter and sculptor (died 1923
  )

• 30 July - Auguste Bouché-Leclercq, historian (died 1923)
• 14 August - Jean Gaston Darboux, mathematician (died 1917)
• 25 August -
  zoologist (died 1927
  )
• 28 August - Placide Louis Chapelle, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans (died 1905)
• 30 September -
  Cardinal (died 1921
  )
• 6 October - Gustave Charles Fagniez, historian and economist (died 1927)
• 8 December -
  Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly, astronomer (died 1926
  )

• 7 January - Charles Berny d'Ouvillé, miniaturist (born 1775)
• 19 January -
  Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon, jurist and politician (born 1749
  )
• 23 March - Stendhal, writer (born 1783)
• 30 March -
  Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, painter (born 1755)^[1]
• 8 May - Jules Dumont d'Urville, explorer and French Navy officer, and his wife Adèle, killed in Versailles rail accident (born 1790)
• 15 May - Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, atlas-maker, member of Napoleon's entourage and member of the military (born 1766)
• 24 June - Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois, engineer (born 1776)

July to December

• 13 July -
  Prince Royal of France (born 1810
  )
• 19 July - Pierre Joseph Pelletier, chemist (born 1788)
• 25 July - Dominique Jean Larrey, military surgeon (born 1766)
• 20 October - Alexandre de Laborde, antiquary, liberal politician and writer (born 1773)

References