# 1801 in France

Events from the year 1801 in France.

## Incumbents

* The French Consulate

## Events

* 9 February – Treaty of Lunéville signed between the French First Republic and the Holy Roman Empire, ending the war with Austria.
* 8 March – Battle of Abukir, second battle of the Egyptian campaign. British victory.
* 18 March – Treaty of Florence signed between France and the Kingdom of Naples.
* 21 March - Treaty of Aranjuez signed between France and Spain.
* 21 March - Battle of Alexandria. British victory.
* 8 July – First Battle of Algeciras Bay. Franco-Spanish victory.
* 12 July – Second Battle of Algeciras Bay. British victory.
* 15 July – Concordat of 1801, agreement signed between France and Pope Pius VII that reaffirms the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restores some of its civil status.
* 17 August – Siege of Alexandria by the British begins.
* 2 September – Siege of Alexandria ends in British victory.
* 29 September – Treaty of Madrid signed between John VI of Portugal and France.
* September – Metric system obligatory throughout France.
* First census in France.
* Joseph Marie Jacquard develops a loom where the pattern being woven is controlled by punched cards.

## Births

* 14 January – Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, botanist (died 1876)
* 1 February – Émile Littré, lexicographer and philosopher (died 1881)
* 6 February – Laure Cinti-Damoreau, soprano (died 1863)
* 22 February – Marc Girardin, politician and man of letters (died 1873)
* 11 March – Frédéric Berat, poet and songwriter (died 1855)
* 8 April – Eugène Burnouf, orientalist (died 1852)
* 24 April – Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (died 1880)
* 30 April – André Giroux, photographer and painter (died 1879)
* 11 May – Henri Labrouste, architect (died 1875)
* 15 May – Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, geologist and metallurgist (died 1869)
* 30 June – Frédéric Bastiat, writer and political economist (died 1850)
* 23 July – Charles Rohault de Fleury, architect (died 1875)
* 28 August – Antoine Augustin Cournot, economist, philosopher and mathematician (died 1877)
* 6 October – Hippolyte Carnot, statesman (died 1888)
* 27 December – Étienne Joseph Louis Garnier-Pagès, politician (died 1841)

### Full date unknown

* Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue, historian and biographer (died 1872)
* Carron du Villards, ophthalmologist (died 1860)
* Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, politician (died 1845)
* Amédée Fauré, painter (died 1878)

## Deaths

* 11 January – Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries, Marshal of France (born 1727)
* 9 February – Armand-Joseph Guffroy, politician (born 1742)
* 12 February – Jean Darcet, chemist and porcelain maker (born 1724)
* 2 March – Charles-Albert Demoustier, writer (born 1760)
* 7 April – Noël François de Wailly, grammarian and lexicographer (born 1724)
* 11 April – Antoine de Rivarol, writer and epigrammatist (born 1753)
* 8 June – Pierre Antoine Monneron, merchant, banker, writer and politician (born 1747)
* 6 July – Pierre Augustin Moncousu, naval officer (born 1756; killed in action at the First Battle of Algeciras)
* 7 September – Antoine de Sartine, statesman (born 1729)
* 3 October – Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (born 1724)
* 29 November – François Macquard, Napoleonic general (born 1738)
* Honoré Blanc, gunsmith (born 1736)
* David Charpentier de Cossigny, Governor General of Pondicherry, Réunion and Mauritius (born 1740)