Events from the year 1812 in France
Incumbents Emperor – Napoleon I
Events The Peninsular War (1807–1814) 12 February – Metric system rescinded for everyday use 24 June - 14 December – The French invasion of Russia
Arts and culture The Charging Chasseur, painting by Théodore Géricault Fantasmagoriana, book by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Births 4 January – Alexandre Monnet, bishop (died 1849) 15 April – Théodore Rousseau, painter (died 1867) 13 June – Adolphe Braun, photographer (died 1877) 9 November – Paul Abadie, architect (died 1884) 15 November – Adolphe Pierre Leleux, painter (died 1891)
Deaths
13 February – Jacques Marie Boutet, actor and comic dramatist (born 1745) 24 February – Étienne-Louis Malus, military officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1775) 24 July – Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, admiral (born 1747) 30 August – Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, poet (born 1764) 22 October – Alexis Joseph Delzons, general (born 1775) 29 October – Emmanuel Maximilien-Joseph Guidal, general (born 1764) 22 December – Pierre Henri Larcher, classical scholar and archaeologist (born 1726)
Exact date missing Jean Baptiste Eblé, general (born 1758)
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