1836 in France

Events from the year 1836 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis Philippe I

Events

 * 29 July - The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is inaugurated.
 * Eugène Schneider and his brother Adolphe Schneider purchase a bankrupt ironworks near the town of Le Creusot in the Burgundy region and found the steelworks and engineering company Schneider Frères & Cie.

Births

 * 3 January - Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, politician (died 1897)
 * 14 January - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (died 1904)
 * 21 February - Léo Delibes, composer (died 1891)
 * 26 March - Mélanie de Pourtalès, salonnière and courtier (died 1914)
 * 31 May - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer (died 1932)
 * 26 June - Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (died 1918)
 * 4 October - Juliette Adam, writer (died 1936)
 * 15 October - James Tissot, painter (died 1902)
 * 20 December - Alfred Grandidier, naturalist and explorer (died 1921)

Full date unknown

 * Jean Pierre Philippe Lampué, photographer (died 1924)

Deaths

 * 9 January - Pierre François Lacenaire, poet and criminal, double murderer (executed) (born 1803)
 * 21 January - André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac, naturalist (born 1786)
 * 7 March - Français of Nantes, politician and author (born 1756)
 * 10 June - André-Marie Ampère, physicist (born 1775)
 * 26 June - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, army captain, writer of La Marseillaise (born 1760)
 * 23 July - Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart, astronomer (TB) (born 1800)
 * 25 July - Armand Carrel, writer (duel) (born 1800)
 * 21 August - Claude-Louis Navier, engineer and physicist (born 1785)
 * 17 September - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, botanist (born 1748)
 * 30 November - Pierre-Simon Girard, mathematician and engineer (born 1765)