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

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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