1825 in France
Events from the year 1825 in France.Incumbents
January to June
- 28 February - Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornetist and conductor.
- 16 March - Auguste Poulet-Malassis, printer and publisher.
- 6 May - Charlotte de Rothschild, socialite and painter.
- 7 June - Gustave Emile Boissonade, legal scholar.
- 14 June - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, critic.
- 30 June - Hervé, composer, librettist and conductor.
July to December
- 2 July - Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France.
- 19 July - Pierre Potain, cardiologist.
- 4 August - Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, colonial administrator.
- 22 August - Auguste Arnaud, sculptor.
- 17 October - Louis Joseph Troost, chemist
- 31 October - Charles Lavigerie, Cardinal, Primate of Africa.
- 6 November - Charles Garnier, architect.
- 29 November - Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology.
- 30 November - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter.
- 25 December - Henri de Bornier, poet and dramatist.
Full date unknown
- Joseph-Epiphane Darras, historian.
- Armand Gautier, painter and lithographer.
Deaths
January to June
- 17 January - Antoine-François-Claude Ferrand, statesman and political writer.
- 5 February - Pierre Gaveaux, operatic tenor and composer.
- 17 February - Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet, politician.
- 25 March - Fabre d'Olivet, author, poet and composer.
- 19 May - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, utopian socialist thinker.
- 21 May - André Briche, General.
- 9 June - Pauline Bonaparte, younger and favourite sister of Napoleon I of France.
July to December
- 26 September - Guillaume-André-Réné Baston, theologian.
- 28 November - Maximilien Sebastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer.
- 3 December - Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter.
- 5 December - Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian and bibliographer.
- 29 December - Jacques-Louis David, painter.
Full date unknown
- Guillaume de Bonne-Carrere, diplomat.
- Raphaël, Comte de Casabianca, General.