1847 in France

• Monarch – Louis Philippe I ==Events==

• 15 April - Bombardment of Tourane: French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombard Tourane (Da Nang in Vietnam) in response to the persecution of Roman Catholic missionaries. • 21 December - Emir Abdelkader surrenders in Algeria and is imprisoned in France. • Jeweler Cartier established in Paris. ==Births==

• 15 January - Camille Doncieux, first wife of Claude Monet (died 1879) • 23 March - Victor Besaucèle, ornithologist (d. 1924) • 25 March - Fernand Lataste, zoologist (died 1934) • 31 May - Jules Bourgeois, entomologist (died 1911) • 16 June - Paul Alexis, novelist, dramatist and journalist (died 1901) • 29 June - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (died 1932) • 1 July - Eugène Boullet, entomologist (died 1923) • 14 July - Noël Ballay, explorer, colonial administrator and poet (died 1902) • 22 July - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister (died 1943) • 4 October - Louis Henri Boussenard, author of adventure novels (died 1911) • 8 November - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (died 1907) • 15 December - Gaston Floquet, mathematician (died 1920) • 17 December - Michel-Joseph Maunoury, military leader (died 1923) • 18 December - Augusta Holmès, composer (died 1903) ==Deaths==

January to June • 3 February - Marie Duplessis, courtesan (born 1824) • 4 February - Henri Dutrochet, physician, botanist and physiologist (born 1776) • 15 February - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, mathematician, soldier, and professor of engineering (born 1794) • 24 February - Alexandre Guiraud, poet and novelist (born 1788) • 2 March - Jules, prince de Polignac, statesman (born 1780) • 17 March - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist (born 1803) • 20 March - Mademoiselle Mars, actress (born 1779) • 29 May - Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, Marshal of France, (born 1766) • 12 June - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and philosopher (born 1776) July to December • 13 September - Nicolas Oudinot, Marshal of France (born 1767) • 7 October - Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (born 1770) • 16 October - Henri de Castellane, politician and nobleman (born 1814) • 31 December - Princess Adélaïde of Orléans, adviser to brother Louis Philippe, King of the French (born 1777) Full date unknown • Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert, philanthropist (born 1797) ==References==