1822 in France
Events from the year 1822 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 24 April – Salon of 1822 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- 20 October - Congress of Verona, at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain.
- Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
Births
- 8 February - Maxime Du Camp, writer and photographer
- 4 March - Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician
- 8 March - Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist
- 11 March - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, mathematician
- 7 May - André Garin, missionary and parish priest
- 20 May - Frédéric Passy, economist, joint winner of first Nobel Peace Prize, 1901
- 26 May - Edmond de Goncourt, writer, critic and book publisher
- 13 September - Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist
- 19 October - Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters
- 27 December - Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist
Full date unknown
- Delphine Delamare, housewife and suicide
- Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, architect
Deaths
- 3 March - Abraham-Joseph Bénard, actor
- 19 March - Valentin Haüy, founder of the first school for the blind
- 10 May - Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, abbé and instructor of deaf-mutes
- 17 May - Duke of Richelieu, former Prime Minister
- 3 June - René Just Haüy, mineralogist
- 2 August - Thomas de Treil de Pardailhan, nobleman and soldier
- 18 August - Armand-Charles Caraffe, historical painter and etcher
- 19 August - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer
- 16 September - Auguste Jean Ameil, Brigade General
- 6 November - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist and senator
- 10 December - Bertrand Andrieu, medal engraver
Full date unknown
- Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman