1829 in France

Events from the year 1829 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch – Charles X{{cite book |last1=Sand |first1=George |title=Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand |date=1 January 1991 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-0580-2 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4qnMUhj-WIC&pg=PA47 |language=en}}
Prime Minister – Jean Baptiste Gay{{cite web |title=Jean-Baptiste-Sylvère Gay, viscount de Martignac {{!}} French politician and historian {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Baptiste-Sylvere-Gay-vicomte-de-Martignac |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=26 June 2022 |language=en}} (until 8 August), then Jules de Polignac{{cite book |last1=Rigatelli |first1=Laura Toti |title=Evariste Galois 1811–1832 |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Birkhäuser |isbn=978-3-0348-9198-1 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCjyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52 |language=en}}

26 July – Red trousers (pantalon rouge) adopted as standard Army uniform.{{cite book |title=L'intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux |date=1919 |publisher=Benj. Duprat, Libraire de l'Institut |pages=37–38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9KbNAAAAMAAJ |language=fr}}{{cite book |last1=Ludovici |first1=Albert |title=An Artist's Life in London and Paris, 1870-1925 |date=1926 |publisher=T.F. Unwin Limited |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqI5AAAAMAAJ |language=en}}
17 November – Jules de Polignac becomes president of the council of ministers.
Barthélemy Thimonnier invented the "sewing machine"

10 January – Henri-Émile Bazin, hydraulic engineer (d. 1917)
20 February – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, sculptor (d. 1906)
22 February – Henri-Jacques Espérandieu, architect (d. 1874)
18 July – Paul Dubois, sculptor (d. 1905)
25 November – Charles de Varigny, adventurer, diplomat, translator and writer (d. 1899)
21 December – Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet, architect (d. 1895)
date unknown – Peter Howard, U.S. sailor (d. 1875)

18 March – Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth, soldier and politician (b. 1760)
6 July – Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley, admiral (b. 1770)
23 August – Pierre Deval, diplomat (b. 1758)
5 September – Pierre, comte Daru, soldier, statesman, historian and poet (b. 1767)
13 December – Charles Dambray, chancellor of France (b. 1760)