1835 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis Philippe I

  Events

• July 28 - In Paris, the assassination of Louis Philippe I is attempted by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi using a home-made volley gun. Eighteen are killed but the King escapes with a minor wound.
• The French word for their language changes to français, from françois.
• Charles-Louis Havas creates Havas, the first French news agency
• The September Laws, banning all criticism of Louis Philippe, and regulating publications and the theatre
• Le Pere Goriot by Balzac published

  Births

• 18 April - François Perrier, general and geodesist
• 15 May - Émile Léonard Mathieu, mathematician
• 31 May - Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, painter
• 31 July - Henri Brisson, statesman and Prime minister of France
• 2 October - Louis-Antoine Ranvier, physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist
• 9 October - Camille Saint-Saëns, composer, organist, conductor

  Full date unknown

• Frédéric Febvre, actor

  Deaths

• 8 February - Guillaume Dupuytren, anatomist and military surgeon
• 10 April - Pierre Clement de Laussat, politician, last French Governor of Louisiana
• 24 June - Jacques Claude Beugnot, politician
• 25 July - François René Mallarmé, politician
• 28 July - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Marshal of France
• 18 September - Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier, magistrate and politician
• 17 December - Pierre Louis Roederer, politician, economist, and historian

  Full date unknown

• Hippolyte Pixii, instrument maker