Deaths in the 1840s

Charles Derosne

1780–1846 (age 66)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French pharmacist and chemist who advanced pharmaceutical science in the early 19th century.

Jean Antoine Letronne

1787–1848 (age 61)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean Antoine Letronne (1787-1848) was a French archaeologist and philologist who specialized in Egyptian antiquities and...

Joseph Jacotot

1770–1840 (age 70)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Joseph Jacotot (1770-1840) was a French pedagogue from Dijon who developed the method of universal teaching based on int...

François Joseph Bosio

1768–1845 (age 77)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French teacher and educator who contributed to French educational development in the early 19th century.

Jacques Laffitte

1767–1844 (age 77)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Nicolas Joseph Maison

1771–1840 (age 69)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin

1756–1841 (age 85)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French politician and statesman who served in government during the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Restoration periods.

Pierre-François Delpire

1773–1846 (age 73)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre-François Delpire (1773-1846) was a French individual from Dole who lived during the late 18th and early 19th cen...

Augustine-Hortense Guilleminot

1849–1849 (age 0)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Augustine-Hortense Guilleminot was a French woman of the mid-nineteenth century buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Auguste Guenepin

1780–1842 (age 62)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Auguste Guenepin (1780-1842) was a Parisian who lived during the Napoleonic era and the early years of the July Monarchy...

Benoît Costaz

1761–1842 (age 81)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Baudiot

1773–1849 (age 76)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Baudiot (1773-1849) was a French figure from Nancy whose life spanned from the ancien régime to the Second Repu...

Félix Savart

1791–1841 (age 50)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Félix Savart (1791–1841) was a French physician whose scientific and medical work contributed to the advancement of n...

Charles Barbier de La Serre

1767–1841 (age 74)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Barbier de La Serre (1767-1841) was a French figure from Valenciennes active during the post-revolutionary perio...

Louis-Léopold Boilly

1761–1845 (age 84)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Gaspard Deburau

1796–1846 (age 50)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Gaspard Deburau was a Bohemian-French mime artist who became famous for his portrayal of Pierrot at the Théâtre d...

Jean Victor Audouin

1797–1841 (age 44)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean Victor Audouin was a French naturalist whose research in zoology and entomology contributed significantly to 19th-c...

Louis-François, Baron Lejeune

1775–1848 (age 73)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis-François, Baron Lejeune was a French general, painter, and lithographer who served in Napoleon's army and documen...

Jean Pierre Joseph d'Arcet

1777–1844 (age 67)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean Pierre Joseph d'Arcet (1777-1844) was a French chemist from Paris known for his work on industrial chemistry and fo...

John Gilchrist

1759–1841 (age 82)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

John Gilchrist (1759-1841) was a Scottish-born linguist from Edinburgh who spent time in France and was buried at the Gr...

Felice Blangini

1781–1841 (age 60)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre-Anne Dedreux

1788–1849 (age 61)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre-Anne Dedreux was a French architect whose designs contributed to the development of 19th-century French architect...

Graves Haughton

1788–1849 (age 61)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

British orientalist and Sanskrit scholar who served as professor of Sanskrit and Bengali at East India College.

Christophe-Édouard-François de Malet

1784–1843 (age 59)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Christophe-Édouard-François de Malet was a French individual who lived during the Napoleonic period in Paris.

Henri Pouillet

1834–1849 (age 15)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Henri Pouillet (1834-1849) was a young Parisian who died at age 15, likely a family member of physicist Claude Pouillet.

Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix

1773–1840 (age 67)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix was a French individual from Besançon who lived through the Revolutionary and Napoleoni...

Bonaventure Jean-François Breton

1776–1847 (age 71)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Bonaventure Jean-François Breton (1776-1847) was a French citizen who lived through the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and ...

Jean-Louis Richter

1769–1840 (age 71)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Louis Richter (1769-1840) was a Geneva-born individual buried in France at the Grave of Richter.

Charles Loudon

1801–1844 (age 43)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Loudon (1801-1844) was a French individual interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Jean-Louis Holker

1770–1844 (age 74)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Louis Holker (1770-1844) was a Rouen-born industrialist who continued his family's textile manufacturing legacy in ...

Charles Jean Harel

1790–1846 (age 56)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Jean Harel (1790-1846) was a French theater director from Rouen buried at the Grave of George.

Charles Léonce de Mornay

1792–1849 (age 57)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Léonce de Mornay was a French aristocrat who lived in Paris from 1792 to 1849.

Claude-Henry-Étienne Bernard de Sassenay

1760–1840 (age 80)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Claude-Henry-Étienne Bernard de Sassenay (1760-1840) was a French nobleman from Dijon who lived through the Revolutiona...

Claude-Philibert-Édouard Mounier

1784–1843 (age 59)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Claude-Philibert-Édouard Mounier was a French official from Grenoble who lived from 1784 to 1843.

Claude Marie Meunier

1770–1846 (age 76)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Dominique Honoré Antoine Vedel

1771–1848 (age 77)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Dominique Honoré Antoine Vedel (1771-1848) was a French official or nobleman who died in Monaco.

Joseph Izarn

1766–1847 (age 81)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Marie Péan

1783–1846 (age 63)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Marie Péan was a French woman who lived through the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods.

Dominiciand de Oliveira-Arruda

1808–1849 (age 41)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Ursule-Catherine-Françoise Sieyès

1763–1845 (age 82)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Ursule-Catherine-Françoise Sieyès was a French woman who lived through the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Restoration ...

Jacques-Henry Baltazar d'Arcy

1776–1847 (age 71)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jacques-Henry Baltazar d'Arcy (1776-1847) was a Parisian who lived through the Revolution, Empire, and July Monarchy.

David Singer

1778–1846 (age 68)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste Fourcadelle

1768–1845 (age 77)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste Fourcadelle was a French resident who lived from 1768 to 1845, spanning the late Ancien Régime through th...

Marie-Louise Thorel

d. 1848

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Marie-Louise Thorel was a French woman who died in 1848 and was buried alongside the Fourcadelle family.

Charles François Guillaume de Chanaleilles

1767–1846 (age 79)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles François Guillaume de Chanaleilles was a French nobleman who lived through the French Revolution and Napoleonic...

Marie Joseph Thomas Rossetti

1776–1840 (age 64)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Marie Joseph Thomas Rossetti was an Italian-born French official from Turin who served during the Napoleonic era.

Jean-Claude Ballouhey

1764–1846 (age 82)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Claude Ballouhey (1764-1846) was a French figure whose long life spanned eight decades of dramatic French history.

Emmanuel Deutz

1763–1842 (age 79)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French rabbi and spiritual leader of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Eugène Ney

1808–1845 (age 37)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Eugène Ney was a French nobleman and son of Marshal Ney who lived in Paris from 1808 to 1845.

François-André Baudin

1774–1842 (age 68)

Père Lachaise Cemetery