Events from the year 1823 in France .
Incumbents
Events
22 January - By secret treaty signed at the Congress of Verona , the Quintuple Alliance gives France a mandate to invade Spain for the purpose of restoring Ferdinand VII (who has been captured by armed revolutionary liberals) as absolute monarch of the country.
7 April - French forces, the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis ", cross the Spanish border.
23 May - The rebel Spanish government withdraws from Madrid to Seville following French attacks.
31 August - Battle of Trocadero : French infantry capture the fort of Trocadero and turn its guns on Cádiz .
30 September - Cádiz surrenders to the French and Ferdinand VII of Spain is restored to his throne as absolute monarch.
5 November - The "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" begin their withdrawal from Spain, although a French army of occupation remains in the country until 1828.
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
27 January - Édouard Lalo , composer (died 1892 )
28 February - Ernest Renan , Biblical scholar, philosopher and writer (died 1892 )
4 March - Casimir Marie Gaudibert , astronomer and selenographer (died 1901 )
14 March - Théodore de Banville , poet and writer (died 1891 )
18 March - Antoine Chanzy , general and governor of Algeria (died 1883 )
21 March - Jules Émile Planchon , botanist (died 1888 )
13 April - Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux , literary scholar (died 1899 )
21 June - Jean Chacornac , astronomer (died 1873 )
28 June - Jules Adenis , dramatist and opera librettist (died 1900 )
July to December
12 July - Jacques-Léonard Maillet , sculptor (died 1894 )
18 July - Félix du Temple de la Croix , Army captain, aviation pioneer (died 1894 )
8 August - Théodule Ribot , realist painter (died 1891 )
15 August - Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier , classical scholar (died 1908 )
1 September - Louis Gustave Ricard , painter (died 1873 )
28 September - Alexandre Cabanel , painter (died 1889 )
8 October - Louis-Frédéric Brugère , professor of apologetics and church history (died 1888 )
21 October - Edme-Armand-Gaston d'Audiffret-Pasquier , politician (died 1905 )
8 November - Joseph Monier , inventor (died 1906 )
22 December - Jean Henri Fabre , entomologist (died 1915 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
3 January - Jean Joseph Amable Humbert , general, led a failed invasion of Ireland (born 1755 )
22 January - Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet , statesman and peer (born 1766 )
16 February - Pierre Paul Prud'hon , painter and draughtsman (born 1758 )
1 March - Pierre-Jean Garat , opera singer (born 1764 )
14 March - Charles François Dumouriez , general (born 1739 )
18 March - Jean-Baptiste Bréval , cellist and composer (born 1753 )
27 March - Jacques-Michel Hurel de Lamare , cellist (born 1772 )
1 June - Louis-Nicolas Davout , Marshal of France (born 1770 )
27 June - Pierre Antoine Delalande , naturalist and explorer (born 1787 )
July to December
Full date unknown
See also
References
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