1821 in France
Events from the year 1821 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Louis XVIII
- Prime Minister - Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, then Joseph de Villèle
Events
- 5 May - Napoleon dies in exile at Saint Helena. The cause of his death is still disputed.
Births
- 11 February - Auguste Mariette, scholar and archaeologist
- 9 April - Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic and translator
- 6 June - Jean-André Cuoq, philologist
- 1 July - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist
- 18 July - Pauline García-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer
- 29 August - Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, anthropologist
- 17 September - Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard, general
- 22 November - Charles Brun, naval engineer
- 12 December - Gustave Flaubert, novelist
- 27 December - Joseph Déjacque, anarcho-communist poet and writer
- Undated - Michel Lévy, publisher
Deaths
- 15 March - Guy-Toussaint-Julien Carron, Roman Catholic priest and writer
- 17 March - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, poet and politician
- 5 May - Napoleon I of France, military and political leader
- 19 May
- *François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny, Marshal of France
- *Camille Jordan, politician
- 21 June - César Guillaume de La Luzerne, Cardinal
- 19 August - Marie-Denise Villers, painter
- 18 September - Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, physician
- 8 November - Jean Rapp, general lieutenant
- Undated - Jules Granier, composer