Events from the year 1822 in France. Incumbents Monarch – Louis XVIII Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle Events 20 October - Congress of Verona, at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain. Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone. Births 8 February - Maxime Du Camp, writer and photographer (died 1894) 4 March - Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (died 1880) 8 March - Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (died 1895) 11 March - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, mathematician (died 1900) 7 May - André Garin, missionary and parish priest (died 1895) 20 May - Frédéric Passy, economist, joint winner (with Henry Dunant) of first Nobel Peace Prize, 1901 (died 1912) 26 May - Edmond de Goncourt, writer, critic and book publisher (died 1896) 13 September - Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (died 1886) 19 October - Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (died 1901) 27 December - Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist (died 1895) Full date unknown Delphine Delamare, housewife and suicide (died 1848) Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, architect (died 1893) Deaths 3 March - Abraham-Joseph Bénard, actor (born 1750) 19 March - Valentin Haüy, founder of the first school for the blind (born 1745) 10 May - Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, abbé and instructor of deaf-mutes (born 1742) 3 June - René Just Haüy, mineralogist (born 1743) 2 August - Thomas de Treil de Pardailhan, nobleman and soldier (born 1754) 18 August - Armand-Charles Caraffe, historical painter and etcher (born 1762) 19 August - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer (born 1749) 16 September - Auguste Jean Ameil, Brigade General (born 1776) 6 November - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist and senator (born 1748) 10 December - Bertrand Andrieu, medal engraver (born 1761) Full date unknown Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman (born 1737) References See also 1820s in France