1827 in France

See also: 1826 in France, other events of 1827, 1828 in France.

Events from the year 1827 in France.

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, combined British, French and Russian naval force destroyed a combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada.
• 17 November - Legislative Election held for the third legislature of the Second Restoration.
• 24 November - Legislative Election held

Births

January to June

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

July to September

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

October to December

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

Full date unknown

• Auguste Chauveau, professor and veterinarian (d.1917).
• Jean Antoine Villemin, physician (d.1892).

Deaths

January to June

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

July to December

• 14 July - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist (b.1788).
• 9 August - Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and song-writer (b.1772).
• 20 August - Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (b.1775).
• 13 September - Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye, aristocrat (b.1755).

Full date unknown

• Jean-Nicolas Curély, Cavalry leader (b.1774).

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