1847 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.

29 June - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (died 1932).
22 July - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister (died 1943).
8 November - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (died 1907).
15 December - Gaston Floquet, mathematician (died 1920).
17 December - Michel-Joseph Maunoury, military leader (died 1923).
18 December - Augusta Holmès, composer (died 1903).

3 February - Marie Duplessis, courtesan (born 1824).
4 February - Henri Dutrochet, physician, botanist and physiologist (born 1776).
15 February - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, mathematician, soldier, and professor of engineering (born 1794).
24 February - Alexandre Guiraud, poet and novelist (born 1788).
2 March - Jules, prince de Polignac, statesman (born 1780).
17 March - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist (born 1803).
20 March - Mademoiselle Mars, actress (born 1779).
29 May - Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, Marshal of France, (born 1766).
12 June - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and philosopher (born 1776).

13 September - Nicolas Oudinot, Marshal of France (born 1767).
7 October - Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (born 1770).
16 October - Henri de Castellane, politician and nobleman (born 1814).
31 December - Princess Adélaïde of Orléans, adviser to brother Louis Philippe, King of the French (born 1777).

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