1822 in France

Events from the year 1822 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XVIII
 * Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle

Events

 * 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 (died 1894)
 * 4 March - Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (died 1880)
 * 8 March - Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (died 1895)
 * 11 March - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, mathematician (died 1900)
 * 7 May - André Garin, missionary and parish priest (died 1895)
 * 20 May - Frédéric Passy, economist, joint winner (with Henry Dunant) of first Nobel Peace Prize, 1901 (died 1912)
 * 26 May - Edmond de Goncourt, writer, critic and book publisher (died 1896)
 * 13 September - Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (died 1886)
 * 19 October - Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (died 1901)
 * 27 December - Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist (died 1895)

Full date unknown

 * Delphine Delamare, housewife and suicide (died 1848)
 * Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, architect (died 1893)

Deaths

 * 3 March - Abraham-Joseph Bénard, actor (born 1750)
 * 19 March - Valentin Haüy, founder of the first school for the blind (born 1745)
 * 10 May - Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, abbé and instructor of deaf-mutes (born 1742)
 * 17 May - Duke of Richelieu, former Prime Minister (born 1766)
 * 3 June - René Just Haüy, mineralogist (born 1743)
 * 2 August - Thomas de Treil de Pardailhan, nobleman and soldier (born 1754)
 * 18 August - Armand-Charles Caraffe, historical painter and etcher (born 1762)
 * 19 August - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)
 * 16 September - Auguste Jean Ameil, Brigade General (born 1776)
 * 6 November - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist and senator (born 1748)
 * 10 December - Bertrand Andrieu, medal engraver (born 1761)

Full date unknown

 * Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman (born 1737)