1832 in France

Events from the year 1832 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis Philippe I

Events

 * 5 June - Anti-monarchist June Rebellion briefly breaks out in Paris.
 * 4–23 December - Siege of Antwerp: the last remaining Dutch defensive point, the citadel, falls to French attack.

Arts and literature

 * 26 February - Chopin gives his debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel.
 * September - The Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse in Paris.
 * Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques opens on the site of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris under Frédérick Lemaître.
 * Honoré de Balzac publishes the novels La Bourse, Le Curé de Tours, Le Colonel Chabert and Louis Lambert.

Births

 * 6 January - Gustave Doré, artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor (died 1883)
 * 23 January - Édouard Manet, painter (died 1883)
 * 16 February - Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (died 1913)
 * 12 March
 * Jean Alfred Fournier, dermatologist (died 1914)
 * Charles Friedel, chemist and mineralogist (died 1889)
 * 26 March - Michel Bréal, philologist (died 1915)
 * 25 May - Marie-Louise Gagneur, née Mignerot, feminist (died 1902)
 * 6 July - Alexis André, missionary priest in Canada (died 1893)
 * 29 September - Léon Labbé, surgeon and politician (died 1916)
 * 15 December - Gustave Eiffel, structural engineer and architect, designer of the Eiffel Tower (died 1923)
 * Full date unknown - Félicien Henry Caignart de Saulcy, entomologist (died 1912).

January to June

 * 4 March - Jean-François Champollion, classical scholar, philologist and orientalist (born 1790).
 * 13 April - Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, painter (born 1759).
 * 23 April - François-Nicolas Delaistre, sculptor (born 1746).
 * 7 May - Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, physicist and painter (born 1759).
 * 13 May - Georges Cuvier, naturalist and zoologist (born 1769).
 * 16 May - Casimir Pierre Périer, statesman (born 1777).
 * 26 May - François-Louis Perne, composer and musicographer (born 1772).
 * 31 May - Évariste Galois, mathematician (born 1811).
 * 1 June - Jean Maximilien Lamarque, statesman (born 1770).
 * 4 June - Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, sinologist (born 1788).
 * 5 June - 166 deaths at the barricades in the June Rebellion

July to December

 * 22 July - Napoleon II of France, son of Napoleon Bonaparte (born 1811).
 * 23 July - Louis-François Jeannet, general (born 1768).
 * 17 August - Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil, soldier (born 1776).
 * 24 August - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, physicist and military engineer (born 1796).
 * 9 September - Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, general (born 1769).
 * 15 November - Jean-Baptiste Say, economist and businessman (born 1767).