1827 in France

Events from the year 1827 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles X
 * Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle

Events

 * April - Ottoman Algeria: Husain Dei slaps the French consul, Decalina, on the face, eventually leading to war and French rule in Algeria.
 * 6 July - Treaty of London, signed by the United Kingdom, France and Russia calling upon Greece and the Ottoman Empire to cease hostilities.
 * 20 October - Battle of Navarino: A combined British, French and Russian naval force destroys a combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada.
 * 17 November - Legislative Election held for the third legislature of the Second Restoration.
 * 24 November - Legislative Election held.

January to June

 * 28 January - Jean Antoine Villemin, physician (died 1892)
 * 1 February - Alphonse James de Rothschild, banker and philanthropist (died 1905)
 * 1 May - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter (died 1906)
 * 11 May - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculptor and painter (died 1875)
 * 19 May - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, statesman (died 1896)
 * 1 June - Charles Émile Freppel, Bishop and politician (died 1891)
 * 24 June - Louis Brière de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor (died 1897)

July to September

 * 11 July - Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor, author (died 1881)
 * 12 July - Henri Rivière, Naval officer and writer (died 1883)
 * 29 July - Louis Ratisbonne, writer and man of letters (died 1900)
 * 16 September - Jean Albert Gaudry, geologist and palaeontologist (died 1908)
 * 27 September - Pierre Tirard, politician (died 1893)

October to December

 * 8 October - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and drama critic (died 1899)
 * 25 October - Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (died 1907)
 * 1 November - Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (died 1907)
 * 23 November - Auguste Chauveau, professor and veterinarian (died 1917)
 * 30 November - Henri Ernest Baillon, botanist and physician (died 1895)
 * 5 December - Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, historian and philologist (died 1910)
 * 7 December - Marc Monnier, writer (died 1885)
 * 9 December - Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret, Cardinal (died 1896)
 * 10 December - Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator (died 1907)
 * 26 December - Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist, introduces the gypsy moth into North America (died 1895)

January to June

 * 13 January - Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais, politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist and historian (born 1753)
 * 15 January - Michel Mathieu Lecointe-Puyraveau, politician (born 1764)
 * 30 January - Victor Marie du Pont, diplomat, then businessman in America (born 1767)
 * 19 February - Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, General and diplomat (born 1773)
 * 5 March - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)
 * 5 March - Charles du Houx de Viomesnil, Marshal of France (born 1734)
 * 27 March - François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, social reformer (born 1747)
 * 6 May - François-Frédéric Lemot, sculptor (born 1772)
 * 31 May - Pierre Louis Prieur, politician (born 1756)

July to December

 * 8 July - Robert Surcouf, privateer, businessman and slave-trader (born 1773)
 * 14 July - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist (born 1788)
 * 9 August - Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (born 1772)
 * 20 August - Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (born 1775)
 * 13 September - Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye, aristocrat (born 1755)

Full date unknown

 * Jean-Nicolas Curély, Cavalry leader (born 1774)