1827 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles X

  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.
• 1 May - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter.
• 11 May - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculptor and painter.
• 19 May - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, statesman.
• 1 June - Charles Émile Freppel, Bishop and politician.
• 24 June - Louis Brière de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor.

  July to September

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

  October to December

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

  Full date unknown

• Auguste Chauveau, professor and veterinarian.
• Jean Antoine Villemin, physician.

  Deaths

January to June

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

  July to December

• 14 July - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist.
• 9 August - Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter.
• 20 August - Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator.
• 13 September - Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye, aristocrat.

  Full date unknown

• Jean-Nicolas Curély, Cavalry leader.