Deaths in the 1850s

Gaspard Gourgaud

1783–1852 (age 69)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste Isabey

1767–1855 (age 88)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste Isabey was a distinguished French painter whose career spanned nearly nine decades and influenced the deve...

Armand Joseph Bruat

1796–1855 (age 59)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French admiral who served in the mid-19th century and was buried in Colmar.

Marchand Ennery

1792–1852 (age 60)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Marchand Ennery was a French rabbi whose spiritual leadership served the Jewish community throughout the early 19th cent...

Jacques Lefebvre

1773–1857 (age 84)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French person from Riom who lived through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras until 1857.

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus

1807–1857 (age 50)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus was a French architect who specialized in Gothic Revival restoration and worked on notable ...

Jean-Baptiste-Charles Gauldrée-Boilleau

1782–1852 (age 70)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste-Charles Gauldrée-Boilleau was a French figure from Saint-Omer who lived through the tumultuous late 18th ...

Jean-Baptiste Dalès

1802–1857 (age 55)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste Dalès was a French poet of the nineteenth century whose work contributed to the literary landscape of his...

Jean-Baptiste Teste

1780–1852 (age 72)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste Teste (1780-1852) was a French figure from Bagnols-sur-Cèze who lived during the post-Revolutionary and N...

Jacques-Marie Huvé

1783–1852 (age 69)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jacques-Marie Huvé was a French resident of Versailles who lived from 1783 to 1852.

Jean-M.-Vincent Audin

1793–1851 (age 58)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Marie Defrance

1771–1855 (age 84)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Marie Defrance was a French figure who lived from 1771 to 1855, born in Wassy and buried at the Grave of Jean-Marie...

Jean-Pierre Collot

1774–1852 (age 78)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Pierre Collot was a French resident of Montpellier who lived during the post-Revolutionary period of French history...

Charles Nicolas d'Anthouard de Vraincourt

1773–1852 (age 79)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Nicolas d'Anthouard de Vraincourt was a French politician active during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...

Claude Hochet

1772–1857 (age 85)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Claude Hochet was a Parisian who lived through the French Revolution and survived into the mid-19th century.

Edgar Clarke

1799–1852 (age 53)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Edgar Clarke (1799-1852) was a French figure from Bas-Rhin who died and was buried at the Grave of Clarke de Feltre in F...

Pierre François Bertonnier

1791–1858 (age 67)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre François Bertonnier (1791-1858) was a Parisian who lived through the Napoleonic Wars, Restoration, and July Mona...

Pierre François Xavier Boyer

1772–1851 (age 79)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre François Xavier Boyer was a French figure from Belfort who lived through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.

Antoine Germain Labarraque

1777–1850 (age 73)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Antoine Germain Labarraque (1777-1850) was a French chemist and pharmacist known for his work on chlorine-based disinfec...

Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine

1762–1853 (age 91)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine was a preeminent French architect whose career spanned nearly a century and profoundl...

Adolphe Dureau de la Malle

1777–1857 (age 80)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Adolphe Dureau de la Malle (1777-1857) was a French historian, geographer, and political economist known for his studies...

Eugène Burnouf

1801–1852 (age 51)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French scholar and orientalist who pioneered the study of Sanskrit and Buddhist texts in Europe.

Antoine Louis Boissière

1790–1851 (age 61)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Antoine Louis Boissière was a Parisian who lived during the early 19th century and was buried in his own grave in Franc...

Narcisse Vieillard

1791–1857 (age 66)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Narcisse Vieillard was a Parisian industrialist and politician who lived during the early 19th century.

Auguste Bottée de Toulmon

1797–1850 (age 53)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Auguste Bottée de Toulmon was a French musicologist and writer from Paris who contributed to music scholarship before h...

César-Ernest Ragon

1805–1856 (age 51)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

César-Ernest Ragon was a French individual who lived from 1805 to 1856.

Karl Friedrich von Mecklenburg

1784–1854 (age 70)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Karl Friedrich von Mecklenburg (1784-1854) was a German nobleman from Warnow who was buried in France.

Zimlé Barra

d. 1857

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Zimlé Barra was a French person who died in 1857 and was buried in France.

Hippolyte Beer

d. 1855

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Hippolyte Beer was a French individual from Metz who died in 1855.

Simon Lévy

d. 1854

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Simon Lévy was a French individual who died in 1854 and was buried in the Grave of Simon Lévy de Phalsbourg.

Edmé Champion

1764–1852 (age 88)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Edmé Champion (1764-1852) was a French resident of Châtel-Censoir who lived through the French Revolution and into the...

Edouard-James Thayer

1802–1859 (age 57)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Edouard-James Thayer (1802-1859) was a Parisian-born French figure buried at the Grave of Thayer.

Emmanuel Dupaty

1775–1851 (age 76)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Fortunée Hamelin

1776–1851 (age 75)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Celebrated salonnière who fostered Parisian intellectual and cultural life.

François-Désiré Froment-Meurice

1801–1855 (age 54)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

François-Désiré Froment-Meurice (1801-1855) was a renowned Parisian goldsmith and jeweler celebrated for his elaborat...

François Debret

1777–1850 (age 73)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

François Debret was a French architect who lived from 1777 to 1850, born in Paris and buried at the Grave of Debret in ...

Sébastien Bottin

1764–1853 (age 89)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Théodore de Lameth

1756–1854 (age 98)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Théodore de Lameth was a French nobleman and military officer who lived an exceptionally long life from 1756 to 1854 an...

Victor Dubois

1779–1850 (age 71)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

William Rogers

1818–1852 (age 34)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

American dentist of the nineteenth century.

Élisabeth Le Bas

1772–1859 (age 87)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French woman from Paris who lived through the Revolutionary period into the mid-19th century.

Éloi Laurent Despeaux

1761–1856 (age 95)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French military officer of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise

1780–1851 (age 71)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (1780-1851) was a Parisian who lived during the early 19th century in France.

Arnail François, marquis de Jaucourt

1757–1852 (age 95)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French nobleman and politician of the nineteenth century.

Georges Guyon

1809–1850 (age 41)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Auguste Panseron

1795–1859 (age 64)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Auguste Panseron (1795-1859) was a Parisian musician and composer known for his vocal works and teaching at the Paris Co...

Juan Bautista Ceballos

1811–1859 (age 48)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Michel Louis Félix Ney

1804–1854 (age 50)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Michel Louis Félix Ney was the son of the famous French Marshal Michel Ney, living in Paris during the first half of th...

Charles Crozatier

1795–1855 (age 60)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Crozatier was a French sculptor and bronze founder known for his monumental works and casting techniques.

Louis Visconti

1791–1853 (age 62)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis Visconti (1791-1853) was a Rome-born French architect who designed notable Parisian monuments and was buried in hi...