1839 in France

Events from the year 1839 in France.

Incumbents

9 January – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
2 March – Legislative election held.
12–13 May – Failed insurrection led by Louis Auguste Blanqui, Armand Barbès, Martin Bernard, and the Société des Saisons as part of the struggle for French worker's rights.
22 June – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his camera (commercially available by September with the prize of 400 Francs).
6 July – Legislative election held.
19 August – French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world".
15 October – Emir Abdelkader of Algeria declares a jihad against the French.

19 January – Paul Cézanne, painter (died 1906){{cite web |title=Paul Cézanne {{!}} French artist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Cezanne |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=14 May 2023 |language=en}}
27 January – Marie Adolphe Carnot, chemist, mining engineer and politician (died 1920)
16 March – Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (died 1907)
17 March – Louis Ricard, lawyer and politician (died 1921)
5 May – Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (died 1907)
21 May – Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (died 1873)
9 August – Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (died 1903)
20 August – Gaston du Bousquet, steam locomotive engineer (died 1910)
9 October – Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (died 1882)

Eugène Petit (1839–1886), flower painter and textile designer[http://www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/eugene-petit.html Burlington Paintings]
Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (died 1906)

10 January – Charles Philippe Lafont, violinist and composer (born 1781)
2 March – Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon I (born 1802)
18 March – Victoire Babois, poet and writer of elegies (born 1760){{cite book | last=Séché | first=Alphonse | title=Les Muses Francais:: Anthologie des Femmes-Poètes (1200 à 1891) | location=Paris | publisher=Louis Michaud | year=1908 | url=https://archive.org/details/lesmusesantholog01sc | language=FR | page=168}}
2 April – Toussaint-Bernard Éméric-David, archaeologist and writer on art (born 1755)
9 May – Joseph Fiévée, journalist, novelist, essayist and playwright (born 1767)
13 May – Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, statesman and journalist (born 1763)
19 July – Maurice de Guérin, poet (born 1810)
30 September – Joseph François Michaud, historian and publicist (born 1767)
26 December – Laurent Jean François Truguet, admiral (born 1752)
31 December – Hyacinthe-Louis de Quelen, Archbishop of Paris (born 1778)