1817 in France
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Events from the year 1817 in France.
Incumbents
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- Monarch – Louis XVIII[1]
- Prime Minister – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu[2]
Events
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Le Clerc Milfort, expedition leader and general (born 1752)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Strieter, Terry W. (1999). Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-313-29898-1.
- ^ "Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duke de Richelieu | prime minister of France | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 26 June 2022.