Events from the year 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 (completed on 15 January), is published by Gosselin in Paris. 19 March - The play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers introduces the term "chauvinism".WorldCat entry. Frédéric Chopin arrives in Paris.
Births 12 March - Joseph Gérard, Roman Catholic missionary priest (died 1914) 15 April - Eugène Poubelle, lawyer and diplomat who introduces the dustbin to Paris (died 1907) 7 July - Eugène Ketterer, composer and pianist (died 1870) 17 July - Amédée Mannheim, inventor of a slide rule (died 1906) 15 August - Pierre Petit, photographer (died 1909) 12 October - Ernest Boulanger, politician and economist (died 1907) 31 October - Paul Durand-Ruel, modern art dealer (died 1922) 23 December - Marie-Azélie Guérin-Martin, Roman Catholic lay religious, canonized (died 1877)
Deaths 28 April - Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg, soldier and politician (born 1757) 12 May - Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, botanist (born 1758) 27 August - François Dumont, portrait miniature painter (born 1751) 14 October - Jean-Louis Pons, astronomer (born 1761)
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