1852 in France

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.
 * 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)