1852 in France explained

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)

Notes and References

Book: Courbe, Charles (1839-1885) Auteur du texte . Les rues de Nancy du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Tome 3 / par Ch. Courbe,... ; [préface de L. Lallement] ]. 1885–1886 . EN.