1847 in France

See also: 1846 in France, other events of 1847, 1848 in France.

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Events from the year 1847 in France.

Events

• 15 April - French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombarded Đà Nẵng (Viet Nam) in response to the persecution of Roman Catholic missionaries.
• 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

January to June

• 3 February - Marie Duplessis, courtesan (b.1824).
• 4 February - Henri Dutrochet, physician, botanist and physiologist (b.1776).
• 15 February - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, mathematician, soldier, and professor of engineering (b.1794).
• 24 February - Alexandre Guiraud, poet and novelist (b.1788).
• 2 March - Jules, prince de Polignac, statesman (b.1780).
• 17 March - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist (b.1803).
• 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).

July to December

• 13 September - Nicolas Oudinot, Marshal of France (b.1767).
• 16 October - Henri de Castellane, politician and nobleman (b.1814).
• 31 December - Princess Adélaïde of Orléans, adviser to brother Louis Philippe, King of the French (b.1777).

Full date unknown

• Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert, philanthropist (b.1797).
• Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (b.1770).