Events from the year 1833 in France (July Monarchy).

• Monarch – Louis Philippe I

• 28 June - Law promulgated by François Guizot requires every commune or municipality to maintain a public primary school.
• 1 December - Launch of Le Ménestrel, a weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.

• 12 February - Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, pianist, teacher and composer (died 1914)
• 4 March - Antoine Alphonse Chassepot, gunsmith and inventor (died 1905)
• 17 April - Arthur Arnould, anarchist (died 1895)
• 20 August - Gustave Denis, industrialist (died 1925)
• 8 October - André Theuriet, poet and novelist (died 1907)

• 12 January - Marie-Antoine Carême, chef (born 1784)
• 19 January - Ferdinand Hérold, composer (born 1791)
• 3 February - Henri François Delaborde, general (born 1764)
• 27 March - Louis Fursy Henri Compère, soldier (born 1768)
• 10 May - François Andrieux, dramatist (born 1759)
• 5 July - Nicéphore Niépce, inventor, pioneer photographer (born 1765)
• 6 July - Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, painter (born 1774)
• 3 October - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, general and military engineer (born 1754)
• 17 October - François-Isidore Gagelin, missionary (born 1799)