1852 in France

"See also:"
1851 in France,
other events of 1852,
1853 in France.

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Events from the year 1852 in France.

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.
*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 (d.1905).
*1 March - Théophile Delcassé, statesman (d.1923).
*28 September - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1907).
*22 November - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d.1924).
*15 December - Henri Becquerel, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1908).

Deaths

*6 January - Louis Braille, teacher, inventor of braille (b.1809).
*26 February - Hélène Jegado, domestic servant and serial killer, executed (b.1803).
*17 April - Étienne Maurice Gérard, general and statesman (b.1773).
*28 May - Eugène Burnouf, orientalist (b.1801).
*22 July - Auguste de Marmont, general, nobleman and marshal (b.1774).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Jacques Feuchère, sculptor (b.1807).
*Jacques Bernard Hombron, naval surgeon and naturalist (b.1798).

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