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 satirical 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. 3 November - The Paris Stock Exchange opens at the Palais de la Bourse. 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) 1 July - Jean-Baptiste Stouf, sculptor (born 1742) 8 October - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter (born 1768) 5 November - Élie Halévy (Chalfan), Hebrew poet and author (born 1760)
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