Events from the year 1827 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Charles X Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle
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: A combined British, French and Russian naval force destroys 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 28 January - Jean Antoine Villemin, physician (died 1892) 1 February - Alphonse James de Rothschild, banker and philanthropist (died 1905) 1 May - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter (died 1906) 11 May - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculptor and painter (died 1875) 19 May - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, statesman (died 1896) 1 June - Charles Émile Freppel, Bishop and politician (died 1891) 24 June - Louis Brière de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor (died 1897)
July to September 11 July - Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor, author (died 1881) 12 July - Henri Rivière, Naval officer and writer (died 1883) 29 July - Louis Ratisbonne, writer and man of letters (died 1900) 16 September - Jean Albert Gaudry, geologist and palaeontologist (died 1908) 27 September - Pierre Tirard, politician (died 1893)
October to December 8 October - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and drama critic (died 1899) 25 October - Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (died 1907) 1 November - Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (died 1907) 23 November - Auguste Chauveau, professor and veterinarian (died 1917) 30 November - Henri Ernest Baillon, botanist and physician (died 1895) 5 December - Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, historian and philologist (died 1910) 7 December - Marc Monnier, writer (died 1885) 9 December - Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret, Cardinal (died 1896) 10 December - Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator (died 1907) 26 December - Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist, introduces the gypsy moth into North America (died 1895)
Deaths
January to June 13 January - Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais, politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist and historian (born 1753) 15 January - Michel Mathieu Lecointe-Puyraveau, politician (born 1764) 30 January - Victor Marie du Pont, diplomat, then businessman in America (born 1767) 19 February - Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, General and diplomat (born 1773) 5 March - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician and astronomer (born 1749) 5 March - Charles du Houx de Viomesnil, Marshal of France (born 1734) 27 March - François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, social reformer (born 1747) 6 May - François-Frédéric Lemot, sculptor (born 1772) 31 May - Pierre Louis Prieur, politician (born 1756)
July to December 8 July - Robert Surcouf, privateer, businessman and slave-trader (born 1773) 14 July - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist (born 1788) 9 August - Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (born 1772) 20 August - Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (born 1775) 13 September - Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye, aristocrat (born 1755)
Full date unknown Jean-Nicolas Curély, Cavalry leader (born 1774)
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