Events from the year 1812 in France
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Incumbents
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edit- 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- 12 February – Metric system rescinded for everyday use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
edit- The Charging Chasseur, painting by Théodore Géricault
- Fantasmagoriana, book by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Births
edit- 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
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- 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
edit- Jean Baptiste Eblé, general (born 1758)[2]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "BBC - History - Napoleon Bonaparte". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Eblé, Jean Baptiste". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 675. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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