1846 in France

Events from the year 1846 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis Philippe I

Events

 * 9 January – Barentin Viaduct on the Paris–Le Havre railway collapses soon after its completion by English engineers.
 * 1 August – Legislative election held for the seventh legislature of the July Monarchy.
 * 19 September – Our Lady of La Salette apparition.
 * Dubonnet first sold.

Births

 * 1 January - Léon Denis, spiritist philosopher and researcher (died 1927)
 * 4 April - Comte de Lautréamont, poet (died 1870)
 * 8 May - Émile Gallé, artist (died 1904)
 * 21 May - Luc-Olivier Merson, painter and illustrator (died 1920)
 * 11 July - Léon Bloy, novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet (died 1917)
 * 8 August - Élisabeth Renaud, teacher, socialist activist, and feminist (died 1932)
 * 21 August - Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst (died 1931)
 * 2 September - Paul Déroulède, author and politician (died 1914)
 * 24 October - Denis Jean Achille Luchaire, historian (died 1908)
 * 28 October - Albert Dubois-Pillet, painter and army officer (died 1890)
 * 28 October - Auguste Escoffier, chef, restaurateur and culinary writer (died 1935)
 * 30 October - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat (died 1906)

Full date unknown

 * Arsène Darmesteter, philologist (died 1888)

Deaths

 * 17 June - Jean-Gaspard Deburau, actor and mime (born 1796)
 * 25 July - Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I of France (born 1778)
 * 16 August - Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (born 1773)
 * 22 December - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, naturalist (born 1778)

Full date unknown

 * Thérèse Albert, actress (b. c. 1805)
 * Jacques-Antoine-Adrien Delort, general and deputy (born 1773)
 * Ambroise-Louis-Marie d'Hozier, last of the juges d'armes of France (born 1764)
 * Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon, politician (born 1781)