1852 in France
Events from the year 1852 in France.
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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.
 - 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)
 
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- Jacques Bernard Hombron, naval surgeon and naturalist (born 1798)
 
References
    
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