1847 in France
Events from the year 1847 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 15 April - Bombardment of Tourane: French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombard Tourane 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
- 23 March - Victor Besaucèle, ornithologist
- 25 March - Fernand Lataste, zoologist
- 31 May - Jules Bourgeois, entomologist
- 16 June - Paul Alexis, novelist, dramatist and journalist
- 29 June - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought
- 1 July - Eugène Boullet, entomologist
- 14 July - Noël Ballay, explorer, colonial administrator and poet
- 22 July - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister
- 4 October - Louis Henri Boussenard, author of adventure novels
- 8 November - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic
- 15 December - Gaston Floquet, mathematician
- 17 December - Michel-Joseph Maunoury, military leader
- 18 December - Augusta Holmès, composer
Deaths
January to June
- 3 February - Marie Duplessis, courtesan
- 4 February - Henri Dutrochet, physician, botanist and physiologist
- 15 February - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, mathematician, soldier, and professor of engineering
- 24 February - Alexandre Guiraud, poet and novelist
- 2 March - Jules, prince de Polignac, statesman
- 17 March - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist
- 20 March - Mademoiselle Mars, actress
- 29 May - Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, Marshal of France,
- 12 June - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and philosopher
July to December
- 13 September - Nicolas Oudinot, Marshal of France
- 7 October - Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist
- 16 October - Henri de Castellane, politician and nobleman
- 31 December - Princess Adélaïde of Orléans, adviser to brother Louis Philippe, King of the French
Full date unknown
- Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert, philanthropist