• March –
Balzac's novel
Le Père Goriot is first published in book form. • July 28 – In Paris, the assassination of Louis Philippe I is attempted by
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi using a home-made
volley gun. Eighteen are killed but the King escapes with a minor wound. • August – The September Laws ban all criticism of
Louis Philippe and regulate publications and the theatre. • The French word for their language changes to
français, from
françois. •
Charles-Louis Havas creates
Havas, the first French news agency (which later spawns
Agence France-Presse). ==Births==