1. Incumbents

2. Events

3. Arts and literature

4. Births
    Full date unknown 

5. Deaths

6. References

Events from the year 1840 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis Philippe I

Events

• 20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
• 1 March - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister.
• 30 September - The frigate Belle Poule arrives in Cherbourg, returning the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena. He is buried in Les Invalides.
• Metric system again mandatory across France.

Arts and literature

• 11 February - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.

Births

• 2 April - Émile Zola, writer (died 1902)
• 22 April - Odilon Redon, painter and printmaker (died 1916)
• 13 May - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (died 1897)
• 20 October - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (died 1909)
• 12 November - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (died 1917)
• 14 November - Claude Monet, painter (died 1926)

Full date unknown

• Louis-Émile Bertin, naval engineer (died 1924)

Deaths

• 13 February - Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (born 1770)
• 22 March - Étienne Bobillier, mathematician (born 1798)
• 25 April - Siméon Denis Poisson, mathematician and physicist (born 1781)
• 7 June - Népomucène Lemercier, poet and dramatist (born 1771)
• 20 June - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, painter and botanist (born 1759)
• 7 September - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, Marshal of France (born 1765)

References

• Phoneme
• Phonemes
• Phonemic
• Phonemically
• Phonemic awareness
• Phonemic differentiation
• Phonemic merger
• Phonemic orthography
• Phonemics
• Phonemic split
• Phone (movie)
• PhoneNet
• Phone number
• Phone numbers in the Netherlands
• Phone-paid Services Authority
• Phone (phonetics)
• Phone phreak
• Phone phreaker
• Phone Phreaker
• Phone phreaking
• Phone plug
• Phones
• Phone-sex
• Phonestheme
• Phone strap