Events from the year 1847 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis Philippe I
Events 15 April - Bombardment of Tourane: French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombard Tourane (Da Nang in Vietnam) in response to the persecution of Roman Catholic missionaries. 21 December - Emir Abdelkader surrenders in Algeria and is imprisoned in France. Jeweler Cartier established in Paris.
Births 15 January - Camille Doncieux, first wife of Claude Monet (died 1879) 23 March - Victor Besaucèle, ornithologist (d. 1924) 25 March - Fernand Lataste, zoologist (died 1934) 31 May - Jules Bourgeois, entomologist (died 1911) 16 June - Paul Alexis, novelist, dramatist and journalist (died 1901) 29 June - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (died 1932) 1 July - Eugène Boullet, entomologist (died 1923) 14 July - Noël Ballay, explorer, colonial administrator and poet (died 1902) 22 July - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister (died 1943) 4 October - Louis Henri Boussenard, author of adventure novels (died 1911) 8 November - Jean Casimir-Périer, 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)
Deaths
January to June 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)
July to December 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)
Full date unknown Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert, philanthropist (born 1797)
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