1828 in France

Events from the year 1828 in France.

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Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles X
• Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle (until 4 January), then Jean Baptiste Gay

Events

• 4 January - Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France.

Births

• 8 February - Jules Verne, author (died 1905)
• 14 February - Edmond François Valentin About, novelist, publicist and journalist (died 1885)
• 15 April - Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion (died 1863 in Mexico)
• 13 June - Elie Delaunay, painter (died 1891)
• 19 June - Charles Tellier, engineer (died 1913)
• 17 August - Maria Deraismes, author and pioneer for women's rights (died 1894)
• 10 November - Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, librettist and playwright (died 1892)
• 26 November - René Goblet, politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1905)

Full date unknown

• Amédée Courbet, admiral (died 1885)
• Louise Laffon, photographer (died 1885)

Deaths

• 10 January - François de Neufchâteau, statesman, poet, and scientist (born 1750)
• 29 January - Ambrose Maréchal, third Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland (born 1764)
• 15 May - Jean-Pierre Maransin, general (born 1770)
• 15 July - Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculptor (born 1741)
• 10 September - Antoine-François Andréossy, general and diplomat (born 1761)
• 3 November - Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, statesman and Prime Minister (born 1767)
• 31 December - Louis-Benoît Picard, playwright (born 1769)

Full date unknown

• Joseph Frédéric Bérard, physician and philosopher (born 1789)
• François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, statesman (born 1756)