1847 in France
See also: 1846 in France, other events of 1847, 1848 in France.
Events from the year 1847 in France.
Events
- 21 December - Abd al-Kader surrenders and is imprisoned by the French.
Births
- 22 July - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister (d.1943).
- 8 November - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (d.1907).
- 15 December - Gaston Floquet, mathematician (d.1920).
- 17 December - Michel-Joseph Maunoury, military leader (d.1923).
- 18 December - Augusta Holmès, composer (d.1903).
Full date unknown
- Camille Doncieux, first wife of Claude Monet (d.1879).
- Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (d.1932).
- Fernand Lataste, zoologist (d.1934).
Deaths
- 3 February - Marie Duplessis, courtesan (b.1824).
- 4 February - Henri Dutrochet, physician, botanist and physiologist (b.1776).
- 2 March - Jules, prince de Polignac, statesman (b.1780).
- 20 March - Mademoiselle Mars, actress (b.1779).
- 29 May - Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, Marshal of France, (b.1766).
- 12 June - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and philosopher (b.1776).
- 13 September - Nicolas Oudinot, Marshal of France (b.1767).
- 31 December - Princess Adélaïde of Orléans, adviser to brother Louis Philippe, King of the French (b.1777).
Full date unknown
- Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert, philantropist (b.1797).
- Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (b.1770).