# 1815 in France

Events from the year 1815 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch –
** Until 20 March: Louis XVIII
** 20 March – 22 June: Napoleon I
** 22 June – 7 July: Napoleon II
** Starting 8 July: Louis XVIII
* Prime Minister –
** 9 July – 26 September: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
** Starting 26 September: Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

## Events

* 3 January - Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
* 26 February - Napoleon escaped from Elba.
* 1 March - Napoleon lands at Antibes.
* 20 March - Napoleon arrives back in Paris, ending the First Restoration of Louis XVIII of France.
* 22 April - Constitutional Referendum held.
* 22 April - Charter of 1815 signed bringing in a new French constitution.
* 1 May - Explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville marries Adèle Dumont D'Urville (née Pepin) in Toulon.
* 16 June - Battle of Quatre Bras, inconclusive result.
* 16 June - Battle of Ligny, French defeat Prussian forces.
* 18 June - Battle of Waterloo, decisive defeat of French forces.
* 18 June-19 June - Battle of Wavre, inconclusive result.
* 24 June - Napoleon announces his abdication.
* 28 June - Battle of La Suffel, French victory over Austrian forces.
* 1 July - Battle of Rocquencourt, French victory over Prussian forces.
* 3 July - Battle of Issy, French defeat by Prussian forces.
* 8 July - Louis XVIII of France returns.
* 15 July - Napoleon I surrenders and is transported to England.
* 14 August - Elections to Chamber of Deputies produces a heavy ultra-royalist majority.
* 3 October - Fall of the Mars meteorite Chassigny in Chassigny, Haute-Marne.
* 7 October - Chamber of Deputies (Chambre introuvable) first assembles.
* 15 October - Napoleon begins exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
* 20 November - Treaty of Paris signed following defeat and second abdication of Napoleon. Allied Occupation of France continues until November 1818.

## Births
### January to June

* 21 February - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter and sculptor (died 1891)
* 24 February - Jules Achille Noël, painter (died 1881)
* 12 March - Louis Jules Trochu, soldier and statesman (died 1896)
* 28 March - Arsène Houssaye, novelist and poet (died 1896)
* 8 April - Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer, theologian, critic and politician (died 1889)
* 9 April - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer (died 1893)
* 13 April - Félix Esquirou de Parieu, statesman (died 1893)
* 25 April - Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon (died 1868)
* 27 April - Alexandre Martin, socialist statesman (died 1895)
* 5 May - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (died 1888)
* 8 May - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist (died 1888)

### July to December

* 6 July - Louis Pierre Gratiolet, anatomist and zoologist (died 1865)
* 24 July - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (died 1893)
* 16 August - Madame Céleste, actress (died 1882)
* 26 August - Bernard Jauréguiberry, Admiral and statesman (died 1887)
* 3 December - Louis de Loménie, scholar, essayist and biographer (died 1878)
* 21 December - Thomas Couture, painter and teacher (died 1879)

### Full date unknown

* Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (died 1886)
* Jacques-Eugène Feyen, painter (died 1908)
* Louis Dominique Girard, hydraulic engineer (died 1871)
* Honoré Jacquinot, surgeon and zoologist (died 1887)

## Deaths
### January to June

* 11 January - Jean-Baptiste de Caffarelli du Falga, churchman (born 1763)
* 15 January - Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Horatio Nelson (born 1765 in Great Britain)
* 18 January - Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (born 1738)
* 12 February - Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, General (born 1768)
* 17 April - Charles de la Bédoyère, General (born 1786)
* 1 June - Louis Alexandre Berthier, Marshal of France (born 1753)
* 18 June - Claude-Etienne Michel, General (born 1772)
* 18 June - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, General (born 1766)

### July to December

* 2 August - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, Marshal of France (born 1763)
* 14 August - Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur, Bishop (born 1740)
* 20 September - Nicolas Desmarest, geologist (born 1725)
* 13 October - Joachim Murat, Marshal of France, brother-in-law of Napoleon (born 1767)
* 22 October - Claude Lecourbe, General (born 1759)
* 11 November - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, author (born 1748)
* 7 December - Michel Ney, Marshal of France (born 1769)

### Full date unknown

* Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu, painter
* Philippe Henri, Comte de Grimoard, soldier and military writer (born 1753)