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The Birds of America (Color lithographic plate 321) (1836) - John James Audubon

La Seine et ses bords is a documentary book written by Charles Nodier and published in 1836

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1836 is the 37th year of the 19th century and the 7th year of the 1830s.

Art and culture

• Classical music coined
• The "penny press" newspaper arrived in France in 1836 with Émile de Girardin's La Presse, starting the age of mass media.
• L'Enfer founded
• The Confessional Unmasked is published

Literature

Fiction

• The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
• The Dead in Love by Théophile Gautier
• "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Histoire de la Monarchie universelle: Napoléon et la conquête du monde (1812–1832) (1836) by Louis Geoffroy

Non fiction

• The Philosophy of Sleep by Robert Macnish
• The trial of Dolet by A.H. Taillandier, a book on the trial of Étienne Dolet
• August Pugin publishes his Contrasts, a treatise on the morality of Catholic, Gothic architecture.
• Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluß auf die geistige Entwicklung des Menschengeschlechts by Wilhelm von Humboldt

Art

• Rowing Home by Winslow Homer
• Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea) (1835-36) by Hippolyte Flandrin

Births

• January 1 - Alcide Bonneau, French intellectual (d. 1904)
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836 - 1895), Austrian writer
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 – 1912), Dutch painter
• Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836 – 1911), French painter
• Elihu Vedder (1836 - 1923), American painter
• Ferdinand Cheval (1836 - 1924) , French postman
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 - 1904) , French painter
• Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910)

Deaths

• Pierre François Lacenaire (1800 - 1836)
• Theresa Berkley (? - 1836)
• William Godwin (1756 - 1836)