title: 1826 in France
text: # 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)
  