1831 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis Philippe I

  Events

• 10 March - The French Foreign Legion is founded.
• 5 July - 1831 French legislative election.
• 2 August - The Dutch Ten Days' Campaign against Belgium is halted by a French army.
• 22 November - In the first of the Canut Revolts, after a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties, rebellious silk workers seize Lyon.

  Arts and literature

• 16 March - Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, is published by Gosselin in Paris.
• 19 March - The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism".
• Frédéric Chopin arrives in Paris.

  Births

• 12 March - Joseph Gérard, Roman Catholic missionary priest
• 15 April - Eugène Poubelle, lawyer and diplomat who introduces the dustbin to Paris
• 7 July - Eugène Ketterer, composer and pianist
• 17 July - Amédée Mannheim, inventor of a slide rule
• 15 August - Pierre Petit, photographer
• 12 October - Ernest Boulanger, politician and economist
• 31 October - Paul Durand-Ruel, modern art dealer
• 23 December - Marie-Azélie Guérin-Martin, Roman Catholic lay religious, canonized

  Deaths

• 28 April - Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg, soldier and politician
• 12 May - Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, botanist
• 27 August - François Dumont, portrait miniature painter
• 14 October - Jean-Louis Pons, astronomer