1822 in France

Events from the year 1822 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XVIII{{cite book |last1=Strieter |first1=Terry W. |title=Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary |date=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29898-1 |page=129 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDr7Tbk__1kC&pg=PA129 |language=en}}
Prime Minister – Joseph de Villèle{{cite web |title=Joseph, count de Villèle {{!}} French politician {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-comte-de-Villele |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=26 June 2022 |language=en}}

8 February - Maxime Du Camp, writer and photographer (died 1894)
4 March - Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (died 1880)
8 March - Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (died 1895)
11 March - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, mathematician (died 1900)
7 May - André Garin, missionary and parish priest (died 1895)
20 May - Frédéric Passy, economist, joint winner (with Henry Dunant) of first Nobel Peace Prize, 1901 (died 1912)
26 May - Edmond de Goncourt, writer, critic and book publisher (died 1896)
13 September - Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (died 1886)
19 October - Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (died 1901)
27 December - Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist (died 1895)

3 March - Abraham-Joseph Bénard, actor (born 1750)
19 March - Valentin Haüy, founder of the first school for the blind (born 1745)
10 May - Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, abbé and instructor of deaf-mutes (born 1742)
17 May - Duke of Richelieu, former Prime Minister (born 1766)
3 June - René Just Haüy, mineralogist (born 1743)
2 August - Thomas de Treil de Pardailhan, nobleman and soldier (born 1754)
18 August - Armand-Charles Caraffe, historical painter and etcher (born 1762){{cite book|title=Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler oder Lexicon der Kupferstecher, Maler-Radirer und Formschneider aller Länder und Schulen nach Maßgabe ihrer geschätztesten Blätter und Werke|year=1870|publisher=T.O.Weigel|location=Leipzig|page=230|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6w5KAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA230|author1=Andresen, Andreas |author2=Heller, Joseph }}
19 August - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)
16 September - Auguste Jean Ameil, Brigade General (born 1776)
6 November - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist and senator (born 1748)
10 December - Bertrand Andrieu, medal engraver (born 1761)