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| 1839 |
| | | The French painter Gustave Courbet moves from his native town of Ornans to Paris | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Napoleon's remains are brought to Paris for burial in Les Invalides, as the Napoleonic legend grows | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels meet in Paris and become life-long friends | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Louis Philippe, now King of France, visits Orleans House during a royal visit to Britain. | |
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| 1846 |
| | | The self-contained metal cartridge, with a percussion cap in its base, is patented by a Paris gunsmith named Houiller | |
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| 1848 |
| | | A revolution in Paris in February removes Louis-Philippe and introduces France's second republic | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels, is published in Paris with the ringing slogan: 'Workers of the world, unite!' | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous novels and stories | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Louis Napoleon is elected the first president of France's new Second Republic | |
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