1817 in France
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Events from the year 1817 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 11 June - Concordat of 11 June 1817.
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).
- 31 May - Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher, geologist (born 1858).
- 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).
Full date unknown
- Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (died 1890).
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).
