1817 in France

Events from the year 1817 in France.

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Incumbents

The Duke of Richelieu, French Prime Minister. 1818 portrait by Thomas Lawrence.

• Monarch – Louis XVIII
• Prime Minister – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

Events

• 11 June - Concordat of 11 June 1817.
• Unknown date - The song "Te souviens-tu?" is written by Émile Debraux commemorating the past campaigns of Napoleon

Births

• 2 January - François Chabas, egyptologist (died 1882)
• 3 February - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, geologist and mineralogist (died 1881)
• 15 February - Charles-François Daubigny, painter (died 1878)
• 24 February - Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, general (died 1882)
• 6 March - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (died 1907)
• 10 March - Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas (died 1895)
• 23 May - Gustave Thuret, botanist (died 1875)
• 31 May
  • Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1897)
  • Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher, geologist (died 1860)
• 12 July - Paul-Quentin Desains, physicist (died 1885)
• 23 October - Pierre Larousse, grammarian and lexicographer (died 1875)
• 3 November - Ernest Hébert, painter (died 1908)
• 13 November - Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist (died 1869)

Deaths

• 14 January - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer (born 1729)
• 4 April - André Masséna, Marshal of France (born 1758)
• 12 April - Charles Messier, astronomer (born 1730)
• 20 June - Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, diplomat and historian (born 1752)
• 14 July - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, author (born 1766)
• 22 July - François-Philippe Charpentier, engraver and inventor (born 1734)
• 7 August - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, writer, economist and government official (born 1739)
• 4 October - Étienne-François Letourneur, lawyer, soldier and politician (born 1751)
• 27 December - Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, general (born 1740)

Full date unknown

• Le Clerc Milfort, expedition leader and general (born 1752)