1799 in France
This article lists events from the year 1799 in FranceIncumbents
- Until 10 November - the French Directory – five Directors
- From 10 November - the three Consuls, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles-François Lebrun
Events
- 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
Births
- 20 May - Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright
- 8 July - Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway.
- 9 July - Théophile Tilmant, violinist
Deaths
- 19 February - Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician
- 5 April - Honoré Fragonard, anatomist
- 28 April - François Giroust, composer
- 9 May - Claude Balbastre, composer
- 18 May - Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, watchmaker, satirist and revolutionary
- 31 May - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, astronomer
- 7 September - Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, scientist
- 17 October - Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist
- 9 December - Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter
- 18 December - Jean-Étienne Montucla, mathematician
- 31 December - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist
- 31 December - Jean-François Marmontel, historian
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