1845 in France explained

Events from the year 1845 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis Philippe I^[1]

Events

• 12 October – The Société Mathématique de France was founded.
• 20 November – Battle of Vuelta de Obligado between the Argentine Confederation and an Anglo-French fleet on the waters of the Paraná River.

Arts and literature

• 1845 – Mérimée writes Carmen
• 1845 – Alexandre Dumas writes La Reine Margot^[2]

Births

• 27 March – Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy, neurologist (died 1917)
• 12 May – Henri Brocard, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1922)
• 12 May – Gabriel Fauré, composer, organist and pianist (died 1924)
• 18 June – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician, awarded 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (died 1922)
• 18 July – Tristan Corbière, poet (died 1875)
• 19 August – Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist (died 1934)
• 11 September – Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (died 1903)
• 9 October – Ferdinand Arnodin, engineer and industrialist (died 1924)
• 30 October – Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter (died 1916)

Full date unknown

• Cécile Bruyère, abbess (died 1909)
• Jules Develle, politician (died 1919)
• Jean-Camille Formigé, architect (died 1926)^[3]

Deaths

• 4 January – Léopold Boilly, painter (born 1761)
• 13 March – Charles-Guillaume Étienne, dramatist and writer (born 1778)
• 17 March – Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean, entomologist (born 1780)
• 30 March – Alexandre Soumet, poet (born 1788)
• 9 April – Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière, general (born 1765)
• 21 August – Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, politician, writer and artist (born 1756)
• 23 August – Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, entomologist (born 1770)

Full date unknown

• Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, philosopher (born 1766)
• Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, politician (born 1801)
• Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (born 1775)
• Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire, naturalist and artist (born 1772)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Louis-Philippe Facts, Reign, & Legacy . Encyclopedia Britannica . 22 October 2021 . en.
2. Web site: La Reine Margot - Paperback - Alexandre Dumas, David Coward - Oxford University Press . global.oup.com . 22 October 2021 . en.
3. Web site: Jean-Camille Formige MoMA . The Museum of Modern Art . 22 October 2021 . en.