1817 in France

Events from the year 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 (died 1882)
 * 3 February - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, geologist and mineralogist (died 1881)
 * 15 February - Charles-François Daubigny, painter (died 1878)
 * 24 February - Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, general (died 1882)
 * 6 March - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (died 1907)
 * 10 March - Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas (died 1895)
 * 23 May - Gustave Thuret, botanist (died 1875)
 * 31 May
 * Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1897)
 * Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher, geologist (died 1860)
 * 12 July - Paul-Quentin Desains, physicist (died 1885)
 * 23 October - Pierre Larousse, grammarian and lexicographer (died 1875)
 * 3 November - Ernest Hébert, painter (died 1908)
 * 13 November - Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist (died 1869)

Deaths

 * 14 January - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer (born 1729)
 * 4 April - André Masséna, Marshal of France (born 1758)
 * 12 April - Charles Messier, astronomer (born 1730)
 * 20 June - Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, diplomat and historian (born 1752)
 * 14 July - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, author (born 1766)
 * 22 July - François-Philippe Charpentier, engraver and inventor (born 1734)
 * 7 August - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, writer, economist and government official (born 1739)
 * 4 October - Étienne-François Letourneur, lawyer, soldier and politician (born 1751)
 * 27 December - Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, general (born 1740)

Full date unknown

 * Le Clerc Milfort, expedition leader and general (born 1752)