1817 in France

"See also:"
1816 in France,
other events of 1817,
1818 in France.

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Events from the year 1817 in France.

Events

*11 June - Concordat of 11 June 1817.

Births

*2 January - François Chabas, egyptologist (d.1882).
*3 February - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, geologist and mineralogist (d.1881).
*15 February - Charles-François Daubigny, painter (d.1878).
*24 February - Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, general (d.1882).
*6 March - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (d.1907).
*10 March - Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas (d.1895).
*23 May - Gustave Thuret, botanist (d.1875).
*31 May - Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer (d.1897).
*31 May - Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher, geologist (b.1858).
*12 July - Paul-Quentin Desains, physicist (d.1885).
*23 October - Pierre Larousse, grammarian and lexicographer (d.1875).
*3 November - Ernest Hébert, painter (d.1908).

Full date unknown

*Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (d.1890).

Deaths

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

Full date unknown

*Le Clerc Milfort, expedition leader and general (b.1752).

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