title: 1821 in France
text: # 1821 in France
  
  Events from the year 1821 in France.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Louis XVIII
  * Prime Minister – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (until 14 December), then Joseph de Villèle
  
  ## Events
  
  * 5 May - Napoléon dies in exile at Saint Helena. The cause of his death is still disputed.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 11 February - Auguste Mariette, scholar and archaeologist (died 1881)
  * 9 April - Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic and translator (died 1867)
  * 6 June - Jean-André Cuoq, philologist (died 1898)
  * 1 July - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist (died 1904)
  * 18 July - Pauline García-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (died 1910)
  * 29 August - Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, anthropologist (died 1898)
  * 17 September - Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard, general (died 1897)
  * 22 November - Charles Brun, naval engineer (died 1897)
  * 12 December - Gustave Flaubert, novelist (died 1880)
  * December - Joseph Déjacque, anarcho-communist poet and writer (died 1864)
  * Undated - Michel Lévy, publisher (died 1875)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 15 March - Guy-Toussaint-Julien Carron, Roman Catholic priest and writer (born 1760)
  * 17 March - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, poet and politician (born 1757)
  * 5 May - Napoleon I of France, military and political leader (born 1769)
  * 19 May
     * François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny, Marshal of France (born 1737)
     * Camille Jordan, politician (born 1771)
  * 21 June - César Guillaume de La Luzerne, Cardinal (born 1738)
  * 19 August - Marie-Denise Villers, painter (born 1774)
  * 18 September - Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, physician (born 1755)
  * 8 November - Jean Rapp, general lieutenant (born 1771)
  * Undated - Jules Granier, composer (born 1770)
  