1815 in France

1815 in France

"See also:"
1814 in France,
other events of 1815,
1816 in France.

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Events from the year 1815 in France.

Events

*3 January - Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
*26 February - Napoleon escaped from Elba.
*1 March - Napoleon lands at Antibes.
*20 March - Napoleon arrives back in Paris, ending the First Restoration of Louis XVIII of France.
*22 April - Constitutional Referendum held.
*22 April - Charter of 1815 signed bringing in a new French constitution.
*16 June - Battle of Quatre Bras, inconclusive result.
*16 June - Battle of Ligny, French defeat Prussian forces.
*18 June - Battle of Waterloo, decisive defeat of French forces.
*18 June-19 June - Battle of Wavre, inconclusive result.
*24 June - Napoleon I of France announces his abdication.
*28 June - Battle of La Suffel, French victory over Austrian forces.
*1 July - Battle of Rocquencourt, French victory over Prussian forces.
*3 July - Battle of Issy, French defeat by Prussian forces.
*8 July - Louis XVIII of France returns.
*15 July - Napoleon I surrenders and is transported to England.
*14 August - Elections to Chamber of Deputies produces a heavy ultra-royalist majority.
*3 October - Fall of the Mars meteorite in Chassigny, Haute-Marne.
*7 October - Chamber of Deputies (Chambre introuvable) first assembles.
*15 October - Napoleon begins exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
*20 November - Treaty of Paris signed following defeat and second abdication of Napoleon.

Births

January to June

*21 February - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter and sculptor (d.1891).
*12 March - Louis Jules Trochu, soldier and statesman (d.1896).
*28 March - Arsène Houssaye, novelist and poet (d.1896).
*8 April - Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer, theologian, critic and politician (d.1889).
*27 April - Albert L'Ouvrier, socialist statesman (d.1895).
*5 May - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (d.1888).
*8 May - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist (d.1888).

July to December

*6 July - Louis Pierre Gratiolet, anatomist and zoologist (d.1865).
*24 July - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (d.1893).
*16 August - Madame Céleste, actress (d.1882).
*26 August - Bernard Jauréguiberry, Admiral and statesman (d.1887).
*21 December - Thomas Couture, painter and teacher (d.1879).

Full date unknown

*Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (d.1886).
*Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer (d.1893).
*Jacques-Eugene Feyen, painter (d.1908).
*Louis Dominique Girard, hydraulic engineer (d.1871).
*Honoré Jacquinot, surgeon and zoologist (d.1887).
*Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon (d.1868).
*Louis Léonard de Loménie, author (d.1878).
*Jules Achille Noël, painter (d.1881).
*Félix Esquirou de Parieu, statesman (d.1893).

Deaths

January to June

*11 January - Jean-Baptiste de Caffarelli du Falga, churchman (b.1763).
*18 January - Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (b.1738).
*12 February - Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, General (b.1768).
*1 June - Louis Alexandre Berthier, Marshal of France (b.1753).
*18 June - Claude-Etienne Michel, General (b.1772).
*18 June - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, General (b.1766).

July to December

*2 August - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, Marshal of France (b.1763).
*14 August - Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur, Bishop (b.1740).
*20 September - Nicolas Desmarest, geologist (b.1725).
*13 October - Joachim Murat, Marshal of France, brother-in-law of Napoleon I of France (b.1767).
*22 October - Claude Lecourbe, General (b.1759).
*11 November - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, author (b.1748).
*7 December - Michel Ney, Marshal of France (b.1769).

Full date unknown

*Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu, painter.
*Charles de la Bédoyère, General (b.1786).
*Philippe Henri, Comte de Grimoard, soldier and military writer (b.1753).

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