# 1807 in France

Events from the year 1807 in France.

## Incumbents

* Emperor – Napoleon I

## Events

* 7 January – The United Kingdom issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.
* 7–8 February – Battle of Eylau, indecisive result, but Russian retreat.
* 19 March – Siege of Danzig begins as French lay siege to Prussian and Russian forces.
* 4 May – Treaty of Finckenstein signed between France and Qajar dynasty Persia, guaranteeing the latter's integrity.
* 24 May – Siege of Danzig ends with Prussian and Russian capitulation.
* 10 June – Battle of Heilsberg, inconclusive.
* 14 June – Battle of Friedland: decisive French victory over Russian forces.
* 7–9 July – Treaties of Tilsit end the war with Russia and Prussia.
* 20 July – Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powers a boat upstream on the river Saône.
* 27 October – Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Spain and France, dividing Portugal and all its dominions between the signatories.
* 9 September – Napoleon establishes the Free City of Danzig.
* 27 September – Napoleon purchases the Borghese art collection, including the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris.
* 24 November – Battle of Abrantes, Portugal: The French under Jean-Andoche Junot take the town.
* 17 December – Milan Decree issued by Napoleon, stating that no European country is to trade with the United Kingdom (the 'Continental System').

## Births
### January to June

* 6 January – Auguste Nicolas, Roman Catholic apologetical writer (died 1888)
* 29 January – Édouard Dulaurier, orientalist and Egyptologist (died 1881)
* 2 February – Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, politician (died 1874)
* 5 February – Ernest Legouvé, dramatist (died 1903)
* 26 February – Théophile-Jules Pelouze, chemist (died 1867)
* 4 March – Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet, entomologist (died 1889)
* 12 April – Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral (died 1873)
* 20 April – Célimène Gaudieux, musician and innkeeper (died 1864)
* 26 April – Charles Auguste Frossard, general (died 1875)
* 17 May – Jules Guyot, physician and agronomist (died 1872)
* 17 June – Auguste Nélaton, physician and surgeon (died 1873)

### July to December

* 24 August
** Jean-Jacques Feuchère, sculptor (died 1852)
** Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist (died 1873)
* 3 September – Raymond Gayrard, sculptor (died 1855)
* 21 October – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (died 1880)
* 14 November – Auguste Laurent, chemist (died 1853)
* 20 November – Augustus Thébaud, Jesuit educator and publicist (died 1885)
* 29 November – Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel, General (born 1714)

### Full date unknown

* Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize, painter (died 1893)
* Alphonse Sagebien, hydrological engineer (died 1892)

## Deaths
### January to June

* 13 January – Pierre Joseph Buchoz, physician, lawyer and naturalist (born 1731)
* 17 January – Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet, naturalist (born 1761)
* 14 February – Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul, General (born 1754)
* 25 February – Jeanne-Marie Marsan, singer and actress (born 1746)
* 4 April – Jérôme Lalande, astronomer and writer (born 1732)
* 5 May – Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, eldest son of Louis Bonaparte (born 1802)
* 10 May – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, aristocrat and Marshal of France (born 1725)
* 18 May – Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis-Philippe of France (born 1775)

### July to December

* 5 August – Jeanne Baret, first woman to circumnavigate the globe (born 1740)
* 19 August – Louis Binot, General (born 1771)
* 25 August
** Sophie Ristaud Cottin, writer (born 1770)
** Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, jurist and politician (born 1746)
* 31 August – Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, poet (born 1729)
* October – Louis Pierre de Chastenet de Puységur, soldier and Minister of War (born 1727)
* 2 November – Baron de Breteuil, aristocrat, diplomat and Prime Minister (born 1730)
* 8 November – Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, engineer, hydrographer and Minister of the Navy (born 1752)
* 23 November – Jean-François Rewbell, lawyer, diplomat and politician (born 1747)