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8 May – Divorce is abolished by the Chambre introuvable, after having been permitted following the French Revolution.^[3]
2 July – French frigate Méduse (1810) runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
6 September – King Louis XVIII dissolves the Chambre introuvable, the legislature that had been elected after the Second Restoration re-established the old monarchy.^[4]
25 September and 4 October – 1816 French legislative election.

21 March – The Institut de France is reorganized by Louis XVIII into four royal academies: a revived Académie française; the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; the Royal Academy of Sciences; and the Académie des Beaux-Arts.^[5]

28 April – The Caisse des dépôts et consignations, a public investment body, is created by Louis XVIII.^[6]
Mutuelle de L'assurance contre L'incendie ("L'Anciente Mutuelle"), predecessor of Axa, the global insurance and financial services company, is founded in Rouen.^[7]

18 February – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (died 1913)
19 February – Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, inventor and engineer (died 1889)
14 July – Arthur de Gobineau, aristocrat, novelist, diplomat, travel writer and racist theorist (died 1882 in Italy)
4 September – François Bazin, opera composer (died 1878)
29 September – Paul Féval, père, novelist and dramatist (died 1887)

^ Strieter, Terry W. (1999). Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-313-29898-1.
^ "Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duke de Richelieu | prime minister of France | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
^ Counter, Andrew J. (2016). The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford University Press. p. 47.
^ Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2002) p157.
^ Louis L. Bucciarelli and Nancy Dworsky, Sophie Germain: An Essay in the History of the Theory of Elasticity (Springer, 2012) p138.
^ "Ordonnance du 3 juillet 1816 relative aux attributions de la Caisse des dépôts et consignations créée par la loi du 28 avril 1816". Legifrance. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
^ "Axa Isle of Man: History". Axa-iom.co.im. 1996-11-12. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Ducis, Jean François". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 478. Retrieved 23 November 2014.

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