1817 in France

, 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) ==See also==