8 May – Divorce is abolished by the Chambre introuvable, after having been permitted following the French Revolution.[3]
2 July – French frigate Méduse (1810) runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
6 September – King Louis XVIII dissolves the Chambre introuvable, the legislature that had been elected after the Second Restoration re-established the old monarchy.[4]
Mutuelle de L'assurance contre L'incendie ("L'Anciente Mutuelle"), predecessor of Axa, the global insurance and financial services company, is founded in Rouen.[7]
Births
18 February – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (died 1913)