1812 in France explained

Events from the year 1812 in France

Incumbents

• Emperor  - Napoleon I^[1]

Events

• The Peninsular War (1807–1814)
• 12 February  - Metric system rescinded for everyday use
• 24 June - 14 December  - The French invasion of Russia

Arts and culture

• The Charging Chasseur, painting by Théodore Géricault
• Fantasmagoriana, book by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès

Births

• 4 January  - Alexandre Monnet, bishop (died 1849)
• 15 April  - Théodore Rousseau, painter (died 1867)
• 13 June  - Adolphe Braun, photographer (died 1877)
• 9 November  - Paul Abadie, architect (died 1884)

Deaths

• 13 February  - Jacques Marie Boutet, actor and comic dramatist (born 1745)
• 24 February  - Étienne-Louis Malus, military officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1775)
• 24 July  - Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, admiral (born 1747)
• 30 August  - Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, poet (born 1764)
• 22 October  - Alexis Joseph Delzons, general (born 1775)
• 29 October  - Emmanuel Maximilien-Joseph Guidal, general (born 1764)
• 22 December  - Pierre Henri Larcher, classical scholar and archaeologist (born 1726)

Exact date missing

• Jean Baptiste Eblé, general (born 1758)^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Napoleon Bonaparte . www.bbc.co.uk . 26 June 2022.
2. Encyclopedia: Eblé, Jean Baptiste . 675 . . 6 . 1917 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 23 November 2014 .