1826 in France

• Monarch – Charles X • Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle ==Events==

• 15 January - The newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly. • June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras. • 19 August - Louis Christophe François Hachette purchases the Brédif bookshop on rue Pierre-Sarrazin, Paris, origin of the Hachette publishing business. • 3 November - The Paris Stock Exchange opens at the Palais de la Bourse. • Unknown date - Société alsacienne de constructions mécaniques founded; becomes part of Alstom, global railway rolling stock manufacturer. ==Arts and literature==

• The second novel by Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, is published. ==Births==

• 6 April - Gustave Moreau, painter (died 1898) • 5 May - Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoléon III (died 1920) • 18 May - Emile-Justin Menier, pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier and politician (died 1881) • 29 June - Charles Ernest Beulé, archaeologist and politician (died 1874) • 24 October - Léopold Victor Delisle, bibliophile and historian (died 1910) Full date unknown • Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (died 1863) • Louis-Arsène Delaunay, actor (died 1903) ==Deaths==

• 3 January • Marie Le Masson Le Golft, naturalist (born 1750) • Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (born 1770) • 22 January - Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, politician (born 1746) • 2 February - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician, epicure and gastronome (born 1755) • 1 July - Jean-Baptiste Stouf, sculptor (born 1742) • 8 October - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter (born 1768) • 5 November - Élie Halévy (Chalfan), Hebrew poet and author (born 1760) ==See also==