1803 in France

Events

30 January
- Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
- Napoleon authorizes the celebration of a Joan of Arc feast in Orléans on 8 May.^[2]
30 April - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
May - The First Consul of France Citizen Bonaparte begins making preparations to invade England.
18 May - The United Kingdom redeclares war on France, after French refuse to withdraw from Dutch territory.
5 July - Convention of Artlenburg, the surrender of the Electorate of Hanover to Napoleon's army.
18 November - Haitian Revolution: Battle of Vertières, decisive Haitian victory over the French colonial army.

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22 July - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (died 1886)
24 July - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (died 1856)
8 September - Léon Faucher, politician and economist (died 1854)
12 September - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet (died 1858)
13 September - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist (died 1847)
23 September - Jacques Crétineau-Joly, journalist and historian (died 1875)
28 September - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (died 1886)
28 September - Prosper Mérimée, dramatist, historian and archaeologist (died 1870)
11 December - Hector Berlioz, composer (died 1869)
24 December - Jean-Rémy Bessieux, founder of Roman Catholic mission in Gabon and first Bishop there (died 1876)

18 January - Sylvain Maréchal, essayist, poet and philosopher (born 1750)
29 January - La Clairon, actress (born 1723)
9 February - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, poet (born 1716)
11 February - Jean-François de La Harpe, playwright, writer and critic (born 1739)
16 February - Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, Cardinal (born 1734)
20 February - Marie Dumesnil, actress (born 1713)
4 March - Madame de Marsan, Royal children's governess (born 1720)
24 April - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, painter (born 1749)
April - Louis François Antoine Arbogast, mathematician (born 1759)
29 May - Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, writer, poet, historian and biographer (born 1719)
6 June - Louis Gallodier, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. c1734)

16 August - Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan, writer (born 1736)
5 September
- François Devienne, composer and flautist (born 1759)
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, General and novelist (born 1741)
7 October - Pierre Vachon, composer (born 1731)
12 October - Jacques Gamelin, painter and engraver (born 1738)
7 November - Pierre Brugière, priest and Jansenist (born 1730)
27 November - Antoine Guenée, priest and Christian apologist (born 1717)

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