1799 in France

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This article lists events from the year 1799 in France

Incumbents

The French Revolutionary Wars resumed, with a number of campaigns
9 November – Coup of 18 Brumaire
10 November – disbanding of the French Directory, and establishment of the French Consulate

Oscar I of Sweden was born in Paris.

19 February – Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician (born 1733)
5 April – Honoré Fragonard, anatomist (born 1732)
28 April – François Giroust, composer (born 1737)
9 May – Claude Balbastre, composer (born 1724)
18 May – Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, watchmaker, satirist and revolutionary (born 1732)
31 May – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, astronomer (born 1715)
27 June 27 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665)^[4]
7 September – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, scientist (born 1717)
17 October – Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist (born 1731)
9 December – Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter (born 1712)
18 December – Jean-Étienne Montucla, mathematician (born 1725)
31 December – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist (born 1716)
31 December – Jean-François Marmontel, historian (born 1723)

^ "Coup of 18–19 Brumaire | French history [1799] | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
^ "Consulate | French history | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
^ Carlquist, G (1924). "Oskar I". In Blangstrup, Chr. (ed.). Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 18 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. pp. 647–649. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
^ Hopkins Porter, Cecelia (2014). Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-25208-009-8.

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