1803 in France
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Events from the year 1803 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 30 January - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
- 30 April - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
- May - Napoleon I of France 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.
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- 3 March - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (d.1860).
- 15 March - Alexandre Boreau, pharmacist and botanist (d.1875).
- 7 April - Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist (d.1844).
- 24 May - Charles Lucien Bonaparte, naturalist and ornithologist (d.1857).
[edit] July to December
- 22 July - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (d.1886).
- 24 July - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (d.1856).
- 8 September - Léon Faucher, politician and economist (d.1854).
- 12 September - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet (d.1858).
- 13 September - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist (d.1847).
- 23 September - Jacques Crétineau-Joly, journalist and historian (d.1875).
- 28 September - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (d.1886).
- 28 September - Prosper Mérimée, dramatist, historian and archaeologist (d.1870).
- 11 December - Hector Berlioz, composer (d.1869).
- 24 December - Jean-Rémy Bessieux, founder of Roman Catholic mission in Gabon and first Bishop there (d.1876).
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- Jean Étienne Bercé, entomologist (d.1879).
- Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, politician (d.1878).
- Hélène Jégado, domestic servant and serial killer, executed (d.1852).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to June
- 18 January - Sylvain Maréchal, essayist, poet and philosopher (b.1750).
- 29 January - La Clairon, actress (b.1723).
- 9 February - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, poet (b.1716).
- 11 February - Jean-François de La Harpe, playwright, writer and critic (b.1739).
- 16 February - Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, Cardinal (b.1734).
- 20 February - Marie Dumesnil, actress (b.1713).
- 24 April - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, painter (b.1749).
- April - Louis François Antoine Arbogast, mathematician (b.1759).
- 6 June - Louis Gallodier, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. c1734).
[edit] July to December
- 16 August - Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan, writer (b.1736).
- 5 September - François Devienne, composer and flautist (b.1759).
- 5 September - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, General and novelist (b.1741).
- 7 October - Pierre Vachon, composer (b.1731).
- 12 October - Jacques Gamelin, painter and engraver (b.1738).
- 7 November - Pierre Brugière, priest and Jansenist (b.1730).
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- Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, writer, poet, historian and biographer (b.1719).
- Antoine Guenée, priest and Christian apologist (b.1717).
- Madame de Marsan, Royal children's governess (b.1720).
