1825 in France
Events from the year 1825 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- January - Anti-Sacrilege Act, law against blasphemy and sacrilege passed under King Charles X. The law is never applied.
- 17 April - Charles X recognizes Haiti, 21 years after it expelled the French after the successful Haitian Revolution.
- 29 May - Coronation of Charles X in Reims. This was the only coronation following the Bourbon Restoration and the last ever to take place.
- 4 November - Canal Saint-Martin opened in Paris.
- Franco-Trarzan War of 1825, conflict between the forces of the new amir of Trarza, Muhammad al Habib, and France.
Births
January to June
- 28 February - Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornetist and conductor
- 16 March - Auguste Poulet-Malassis, printer and publisher
- 6 May - Charlotte de Rothschild, socialite and painter
- 7 June - Gustave Emile Boissonade, legal scholar
- 14 June - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, critic
- 30 June - Hervé, composer, librettist and conductor
July to December
- 2 July - Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France
- 19 July - Pierre Potain, cardiologist
- 4 August - Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, colonial administrator
- 22 August - Auguste Arnaud, sculptor
- 17 October - Louis Joseph Troost, chemist
- 31 October - Charles Lavigerie, Cardinal, Primate of Africa
- 6 November - Charles Garnier, architect
- 29 November - Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology
- 30 November - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter
- 25 December - Henri de Bornier, poet and dramatist
Full date unknown
- Leopold Chasseriau, planter
- Joseph-Epiphane Darras, historian
- Armand Gautier, painter and lithographer
Deaths
January to June
- 17 January - Antoine-François-Claude Ferrand, statesman and political writer
- 5 February - Pierre Gaveaux, operatic tenor and composer
- 17 February - Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet, politician
- 25 March - Fabre d'Olivet, author, poet and composer
- 19 May - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, utopian socialist thinker
- 21 May - André Briche, General
- 9 June - Pauline Bonaparte, younger and favourite sister of Napoleon I of France
July to December
- 26 September - Guillaume-André-Réné Baston, theologian
- 28 November - Maximilien Sebastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer
- 3 December - Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter
- 5 December - Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian and bibliographer
- 29 December - Jacques-Louis David, painter
Full date unknown
- Guillaume de Bonne-Carrere, diplomat
- Raphaël, Comte de Casabianca, General