Events from the year 1852 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Napoleon III (from December 2, monarchy established)
Events
- 14 January - French Constitution of 1852 enacted by Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III).
- 29 February - Legislative Election held.
- 14 March - Legislative Election held.
- 1 May - Covered market in Nancy is opened to the public.[1]
- 24 September - Engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip from Paris to Trappes.
- 21 November - New French Empire confirmed by referendum.
- 2 December - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French.
Births
- 26 January - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, explorer (died 1905)
- 1 March - Théophile Delcassé, statesman (died 1923)
- 28 September - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)
- 22 November - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1924)
- 15 December - Henri Becquerel, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1908)
Deaths
- 6 January - Louis Braille, teacher, inventor of braille (born 1809)
- 26 February - Hélène Jégado, domestic servant and serial killer, executed (born 1803)
- 17 April - Étienne Maurice Gérard, general and statesman (born 1773)
- 28 May - Eugène Burnouf, orientalist (born 1801)
- 22 July - Auguste de Marmont, general, nobleman and marshal (born 1774)
- 26 July - Jean-Jacques Feuchère, sculptor (born 1807)
Full date unknown
- Jacques Bernard Hombron, naval surgeon and naturalist (born 1798)
References
- ^ Courbe, Charles (1839-1885) Auteur du texte (1885–1886). Les rues de Nancy du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Tome 3 / par Ch. Courbe,... ; [préface de L. Lallement].
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