Events from the year 1797 in France.

• The French Directory^[1]

• 14 January-15 January - Battle of Rivoli, decisive French victory over Austria.
• 19 February - Treaty of Tolentino signed between France and the Papal States.
• 22 February - The Last invasion of Britain begins. French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard in Wales.
• 25 February - Tate surrenders at Fishguard.
• 16 March - Battle of Tagliamento, French victory over Habsburg Austria.
• 21-23 March - Battle of Tarvis, French victory over Austria.
• 17 April - Treaty of Leoben, preliminary accord between France and Austria.
• 18 April - Battle of Neuwied, French victory over Austria.
• 20 April - Battle of Diersheim, French victory over Austrian forces.
• 12 May - France conquers Venice, ending the 1100 years of independence of the city.
• 17 October - Treaty of Campo Formio signed between France and Austria.
• 17 December - Napoleon leads a successful French charge against Fort l'Aiguilette to secure Toulon.

• 27 March - Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (died 1863)
• 16 April - Adolphe Thiers, politician, historian and Prime Minister of France (died 1877)
• 27 April - Jean Victoire Audouin, naturalist, entomologist and ornithologist (died 1841)
• 10 September - Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert, philanthropist (died 1847)
• 6 November - Gabriel Andral, pathologist (died 1876)

• 11 February - Antoine Dauvergne, composer and violinist (born 1713)
• 17 May - Michel-Jean Sedaine, dramatist (born 1719)
• 27 May
  • François-Noël Babeuf, political agitator and journalist, executed (born 1760)
  • Augustin Alexandre Darthé, Revolutionary, executed (born 1769)
• 18 November - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, shipbuilder and merchant (born 1719)