Events from the year 1825 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Charles X Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle
Events January - Anti-Sacrilege Act, law against blasphemy and sacrilege passed under King Charles X. The law is never applied (except for a minor point). 17 April - Charles X recognizes Haiti, 21 years after it expelled the French after the successful Haitian Revolution. 29 May - Coronation of Charles X in Reims. This was the only coronation following the Bourbon Restoration and the last ever to take place. 4 November - Canal Saint-Martin opened in Paris. Franco-Trarzan War of 1825, conflict between the forces of the new amir of Trarza, Muhammad al Habib, and France.
Births
January to June 28 February - Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornetist and conductor (died 1889) 16 March - Auguste Poulet-Malassis, printer and publisher (died 1878) 6 May - Charlotte de Rothschild, socialite and painter (died 1899) 7 June - Gustave Emile Boissonade, legal scholar (died 1910) 14 June - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, critic (died 1895) 30 June - Hervé, composer, librettist and conductor (died 1892)
July to December 2 July - Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France (died 1913) 19 July - Pierre Potain, cardiologist (died 1901) 4 August - Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, colonial administrator (died 1900) 22 August - Auguste Arnaud, sculptor (died 1883) 17 October - Louis Joseph Troost, chemist (died 1911) 31 October - Charles Lavigerie, Cardinal, Primate of Africa (died 1892) 6 November - Charles Garnier, architect (died 1898) 29 November - Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology (died 1893) 30 November - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter (died 1905) 25 December - Henri de Bornier, poet and dramatist (died 1901)
Full date unknown Leopold Chasseriau, planter (died 1891) Joseph-Epiphane Darras, historian (died 1878) Armand Gautier, painter and lithographer (died 1894)
Deaths
January to June 17 January - Antoine-François-Claude Ferrand, statesman and political writer (born 1751) 5 February - Pierre Gaveaux, operatic tenor and composer (born 1761) 17 February - Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet, politician (born 1746) 25 March - Fabre d'Olivet, author, poet and composer (born 1767) 19 May - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, utopian socialist thinker (born 1760) 21 May - André Briche, General (born 1772) 9 June - Pauline Bonaparte, younger and favourite sister of Napoleon I of France (born 1780)
July to December 26 September - Guillaume-André-Réné Baston, theologian (born 1741) 28 November - Maximilien Sebastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer (born 1775) 3 December - Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter (born 1765) 5 December - Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian and bibliographer (born 1765) 29 December - Jacques-Louis David, painter (born 1748)
Full date unknown Guillaume de Bonne-Carrere, diplomat (born 1754) Raphaël, Comte de Casabianca, General (born 1738)
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