1799 in France

This article lists events from the year 1799 in France

Incumbents

Until 10 November – the French Directory – five Directors{{cite web |title=Coup of 18–19 Brumaire {{!}} French history [1799] {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Coup-of-18-19-Brumaire |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=25 June 2022 |language=en}}
From 10 November – the French Consulate – three consuls{{cite web |title=Consulate {{!}} French history {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Consulate-French-history |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=25 June 2022 |language=en}}

The French Revolutionary Wars resumed, with a number of campaigns
9 November – Coup of 18 Brumaire
10 November – disbanding of the French Directory, and establishment of the French Consulate

20 May – Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (died 1850)
8 July – Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (died 1859){{cite encyclopedia |title=Oskar I |pages=647–649 |first=G |last=Carlquist |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=18 |year=1924 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/18/0691.html |access-date=19 November 2014 }}
9 July – Théophile Tilmant, violinist (died 1878)

19 February – Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician (born 1733)
5 April – Honoré Fragonard, anatomist (born 1732)
28 April – François Giroust, composer (born 1737)
9 May – Claude Balbastre, composer (born 1724)
18 May – Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, watchmaker, satirist and revolutionary (born 1732)
31 May – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, astronomer (born 1715)
27 June 27 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665){{cite book|first=Cecelia|last=Hopkins Porter|title=Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present|location=Urbana|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0-25208-009-8|page=53}}
7 September – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, scientist (born 1717)
17 October – Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist (born 1731)
9 December – Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter (born 1712)
18 December – Jean-Étienne Montucla, mathematician (born 1725)
31 December – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist (born 1716)
31 December – Jean-François Marmontel, historian (born 1723)