1817 in France

Incumbents

• 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
• 3 February - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, geologist and mineralogist
• 15 February - Charles-François Daubigny, painter
• 24 February - Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, general
• 6 March - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French
• 10 March - Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas
• 23 May - Gustave Thuret, botanist
• 31 May
• *Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer
• *Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher, geologist
• 12 July - Paul-Quentin Desains, physicist
• 23 October - Pierre Larousse, grammarian and lexicographer
• 3 November - Ernest Hébert, painter
• 13 November - Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist

Deaths

• 14 January - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
• 4 April - André Masséna, Marshal of France
• 12 April - Charles Messier, astronomer
• 20 June - Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, diplomat and historian
• 14 July - Anne [Louise Germaine de Staël], author
• 22 July - François-Philippe Charpentier, engraver and inventor
• 7 August - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, writer, economist and government official
• 4 October - Étienne-François Letourneur, lawyer, soldier and politician
• 27 December - Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, general

Full date unknown

• Le Clerc Milfort, expedition leader and general