1812 in France

Events from the year 1812 in France

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The Charging Chasseur, painted around 1812.

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• 12 February – Metric system rescinded for everyday use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)
• 15 November – Adolphe Pierre Leleux, painter (died 1891)

Deaths

General Jean Baptiste Eblé participated in the French invasion of Russia in 1812.

• 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]

See also