Famous Weddings
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
Jul 8 French magician Jean Eugène Robert (24) weds Parisian watchmaker's daughter Josèphe Cecile Houdin (18 or 19), both take on the hyphenated Robert-Houdin surname
- Sep 14 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (20) marries her cousin Prince Albert of Prussia (20) (marriage dissolved 1849)
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