1834 in France
Events from the year 1834 in France.Incumbents
- Monarch - Louis Philippe I
Events
- 26 February - Treaty of Desmichels signed between Abd-el-Kader and France, recognising him as the independent sovereign ruler of the province of Oran in Algeria.
- 21 June - Legislative election held for the third legislature of the July Monarchy.
Births
- 1 January - Ludovic Halévy, author and playwright.
- 9 April - Edmond Laguerre, mathematician.
- 18 May - Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, professor of apologetics.
- 19 July - Edgar Degas, artist.
- 2 August - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty.
- 30 September - Louis Pierre Mouillard, engineer.
- 16 December - Léon Walras, economist.
- 28 December - Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, missionary, explorer and botanist.
Deaths
- 20 May - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, military officer and former aristocrat.
- 14 July - Edmond-Charles Genêt, ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.
- 7 August - Joseph Marie Jacquard, silk weaver and inventor.
- 8 October - François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer.
