1826 in France
# 1826 in France

Events from the year 1826 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Charles X
* Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle

## Events

* 15 January - The newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly.
* June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.
* 19 August - Louis Christophe François Hachette purchases the Brédif bookshop on rue Pierre-Sarrazin, Paris, origin of the Hachette publishing business.
* Unknown date - Société alsacienne de constructions mécaniques founded; becomes part of Alstom, global railway rolling stock manufacturer.

## Arts and literature

* The second novel by Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, is published.

## Births

* 6 April - Gustave Moreau, painter (died 1898)
* 5 May - Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoléon III (died 1920)
* 18 May - Emile-Justin Menier, pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier and politician (died 1881)
* 29 June - Charles Ernest Beulé, archaeologist and politician (died 1874)
* 24 October - Léopold Victor Delisle, bibliophile and historian (died 1910)

### Full date unknown

* Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (died 1863)
* Louis-Arsène Delaunay, actor (died 1903)

## Deaths

* 3 January
   * Marie Le Masson Le Golft, naturalist (born 1750)
   * Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (born 1770)
* 22 January - Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, politician (born 1746)
* 2 February - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician, epicure and gastronome (born 1755)
* 8 October - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter (born 1768)
* 5 November - Élie Halévy (Chalfan), Hebrew poet and author (born 1760)

### Full date unknown

* Jean-Baptiste Stouf, sculptor (born 1742)
