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Events from the year 1842 in France .
7 January – Charles Berny d'Ouvillé , miniaturist (born 1775 )
19 January – Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon , jurist and politician (born 1749 )
23 March – Stendhal , writer (born 1783 )
30 March – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun , painter (born 1755 )[ 1]
8 May – Jules Dumont d'Urville , explorer and French Navy officer, and his wife Adèle , killed in Versailles rail accident (born 1790 )
15 May – Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases , atlas-maker, member of Napoleon's entourage and member of the military (born 1766 )
24 June – Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois , engineer (born 1776 )
^ May, Gita (2005). Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution . New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-30010-872-9 .
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