Émile François Zola (; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902 ) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

" The Slave Trade " by Auguste François Biard, 1840

In 1840 he was elected, in preference to Victor Hugo, to succeed Jean François Michaud at the French Academy ; and in 1845 he was created a commander of the légion d ' honneur, and in the next year a peer of France.

Pierre Claude François Daunou ( 18 August 1761 – 20 June 1840 ) was a French statesman and historian of the French Revolution and Empire.

* a translation of François Guizot's “ Essay on the Character and Influence of George Washington ” ( 1840 )

* François Horace, comte Sébastiani, ( 1772 – 1851 ), Marshal of France in 1840

Around 1830, Planche was introduced by the famous writer Alfred de Vigny to François Buloz, director of the Revue des deux mondes, and contributed to this journal until 1840.

In 1840, by recommendation of François Arago ( 1786 – 1853 ), his teacher at the École Polytechnique, to the Grand-Duke of Tuscany, Matteucci accepted a post of professor of physics at the University of Pisa.

* His great-grandson was Daniel François van Braam Morris ( 1840 -?

* the 60-gun frigate Belle Poule ( 1828 – 1888 ), famous for bringing back the remains of Napoléon from Saint Helena to France in 1840 ; she was under command of François d ' Orléans, prince of Joinville, and was painted black for the mission

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He found the career uncongenial, and in 1840 he was appointed director of a Lehrerseminar, a post which relieved him from pecuniary troubles.

On account of his knowledge of Indian matters, he was made a director of the East India Company in 1840.

Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie ( 3 December 1840 – 23 December 1913 ) was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français.

In 1840 — the same year he claimed to begin hearing the inner voice — Lorber was offered the position of assistant musical director at the theater in Trieste.

Hind remained there from 1840 to 1844, at which time he succeeded W. R. Dawes as director of the private observatory of George Bishop.

His brother Louis Auguste Say ( 1774 – 1840 ), director of a sugar refinery at Nantes, wrote several books against his theories.

In 1840, Mädler was appointed director of the Dorpat ( Tartu ) Observatory in Estonia, succeeding Friedrich Wilhelm Struve who had moved to Pulkovo Observatory.

By about 1840 it was owned by Ambroise Comarmond, director of the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon.

In 1836 Endlicher was appointed keeper of the court cabinet of natural history, and in 1840 he became professor at the University of Vienna and director of its Botanical Garden.

The hospital's director was the psychiatrist James Crichton-Browne ( 1840 – 1938 ).

Having studied at Leipzig under G Hermann and at Berlin under Böckh and Lachmann, he became successively teacher at the Blochmann-Institut in Dresden ( 1836 ), Oberlehrer at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium ( 1838 ) and the Graues Kloster ( 1840 ) in Berlin, professor at the gymnasium at Stettin ( Szczecin ) ( 1842 ), professor at the University of Vienna ( 1849 ), member of the Imperial Academy ( 1854 ), member of the council of education ( 1864 ), and director of the Graues-Kloster-Gymnasium ( 1867 ).

By late 1840 he owned horses, cattle and four thousand sheep, and was a director of the Adelaide Auction Co.

Felix Anton Dohrn ( 29 September 1840 – 26 September 1909 ) was a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the first zoological research station in the world, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy.

It was 1840 before he again came to the fore, this time as music director at the two court theatres, but his lengthy absence had left him quite out of touch and he soon retired again, dying at Baden bei Wien not long after.

Petre was the son of the Honourable Henry William Petre, who first came to New Zealand in 1840 as director of the New Zealand Company of which his own father, William Henry Francis Petre, 11th Baron Petre, had been chairman.

From 1840, one of the directors was to exercise general supervision over the school as governor, or superintending director, with powers to “ reform all abuses and irregularities ”.

Among the founders was the pianist and violinist William Dance who became the society's first director and treasurer until his death in 1840.

In 1832, he became professor at the university of Berlin, and in 1840 became director of the Clinical Institute for Surgery at Charité Hospital.

Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk.

From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.

After filling a number of ecclesiastical offices, he was elevated to the archbishopric of Paris in 1840.

* 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.

The first recognized description of rheumatoid arthritis was made in 1800 by Dr. Augustin Jacob Landré-Beauvais ( 1772 – 1840 ) of Paris.

Wagner wrote the first prose draft of the story in Paris early in May 1840, basing the story on Heinrich Heine's satire " The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski " ( Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski ) published in Der Salon in 1834.

La fille du régiment was first performed on February 11, 1840, by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse, then at La Scala, Milan, on October 30, 1840.

* The Paris Sketchbook ( 1840 ), featuring Roger Bontemps

From there, it spread to Vienna by 1839, and in 1840 was introduced in Paris by Raab, a Prague dance instructor.

Zola was born in Paris in 1840.

One of only two works sent back to Paris during Ingres ' six year term as Director of the French Academy in Rome, the Stratonice was exhibited for several days in mid-August 1840 in the private apartment of the duc d ' Orléans in the Pavilion Marsan of the Palais des Tuileries.

* Alphonse Daudet ( 1840 – 1897 ) was the best-known French writer from Provence in the 19th century, though he lived mostly in Paris and Champrosay.

After the revolution of 1830 Jacotot returned to France, and he died in Paris on 30 July 1840.

Barault-Roullon, Le Marechal Suchet ( Paris, 1854 ); * Choumara, Considerations militaires sur les memoires du Marechal Suchet ( Paris, 1840 ), a controversial work on the last events of the Peninsular War, inspired, it is supposed, by Soult

In 1840, he began exhibiting historical and genre pictures at the Paris Salon, earning several medals for his works, in particular for his 1847 masterpiece, Romans in the Decadence of the Empire.

* L ' École du Monde, ou la Coquette sans le savoir ( comedy ), Paris 1840

Meanwhile in Paris Meyerbeer began to seek new libretti, initially considering Le prophète of Scribe, Le cinq mars by Henri Saint-Georges and eventually settling on Scribe's Vasco da Gama ( later to become L ' Africaine ), which he contracted to complete by 1840.

He was educated at Derby School, Christ's Hospital, and University College, London, and also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he took his degree in 1840.

in Deutschland von Kant bis Hegel ( 1837 – 1838 ); Anthropologie und Psychologie ( 1840 ); Esquisse de logique ( Paris, 1856 ); Naturrecht oder Rechtsphilosophie ( 1866 ); Hegel der unwiderlegte Weltphilosoph ( 1870 ), Wahrheit aus meinem Leben ( 1886 ).

It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris.

Vieuxtemps's Violin Concerto No. 1 was acclaimed when he played it in Saint Petersburg on his second visit in 1840 and in Paris the next year ; Berlioz found it " a magnificent symphony for violin and orchestra ".