1882 in France

Events from the year 1882 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Jules Grévy
 * President of the Council of Ministers:
 * until 30 January: Léon Gambetta
 * 30 January-7 August: Charles de Freycinet
 * starting 7 August: Charles Duclerc

Events

 * 28 March – Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory.
 * 6 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention is signed by United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and France to regulate the policy of the fisheries in the North Sea.

January to March

 * 13 January – Darius Paul Dassault, General (died 1969)
 * 18 January – Lazare Lévy, pianist, composer and teacher (died 1964)
 * 19 January – Pierre Allemane, international soccer player (died 1956)
 * 5 February – Louis Wagner, motor racing driver (died 1960)
 * 21 February – Jean Dupas, painter, designer, poster artist and decorator (died 1964)
 * 26 February – Pierre Mac Orlan, novelist and songwriter (died 1970)
 * 20 March – René Coty, politician, President of France (died 1962)

April to June

 * 16 April – André Edouard Marty, artist (died 1974)
 * 17 April – Émile Muselier, Admiral (died 1965)
 * 10 May – Donatien Bouché, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1965)
 * 13 May – Georges Braque, painter and sculptor (died 1963)
 * 25 May – Maurice Le Boucher, organist, composer, and pedagogue (died 1964)
 * 13 June – Claude-Léon Mascaux, sculptor (died 1965)
 * 22 June – Jacques Thubé, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1969)
 * 28 June – Jean-Julien Lemordant, artist and soldier (died 1968)

July to September

 * 2 July – Princess Marie Bonaparte, psychoanalyst (died 1962)
 * 8 August – François Piétri, politician, Minister and diplomat (died 1966)
 * 10 August – Paul Marchandeau, politician and Minister (died 1968)
 * 16 August – Désiré Mérchez, swimmer, water polo player and Olympic medallist (died 1968)
 * 10 September – Jacques Gréber, architect (died 1962)
 * 24 September – Max Décugis, tennis player (died 1978)

October to December

 * 12 October – Émile Girardeau, engineer (died 1970).
 * 18 October – Lucien Petit-Breton, cyclist, winner of 1907 and 1908 Tour de France (died 1917)
 * 25 October – André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, Cardinal (died 1964)
 * 29 October – Jean Giraudoux, novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (died 1944)
 * 18 November – Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher (died 1973)
 * 22 November – Charles Vildrac, playwright and poet (died 1971)
 * 29 November – Henri Fabre, aviator and aircraft designer (died 1984)
 * 7 December – Robert Debré, pediatrician (died 1978)
 * 31 December – Eugène Le Moult, naturalist and entomologist (died 1967)

Full date unknown

 * Louis Gernet, philologist and sociologist (died 1962)
 * Robert Louzon, engineer, revolutionary syndicalist, anarchist and socialist (died 1976)
 * Julien Peridier, electrical engineer and astronomer (died 1967)

January to June

 * 1 February – Antoine Bussy, chemist (born 1794)
 * 12 February – Madame Céleste, actress (born 1815)
 * 20 February – Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, soldier and musicologist (born 1794)
 * 8 April – Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat, historian and archaeologist (born 1814)
 * 1 May – Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Indianapolis (born 1798)
 * 17 May – François Chabas, egyptologist (born 1817)
 * 15 June – Ernest Courtot de Cissey, General (born 1810)
 * 20 June – François-Auguste Biard, painter (born 1800)
 * 25 June – François Jouffroy, sculptor (born 1806)

July to December

 * 6 August – Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne, historian (born 1820)
 * 16 August – Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, general (born 1817)
 * 22 August – Louis-Auguste Desmarres, ophthalmologist (born 1810)
 * 8 September – Joseph Liouville, mathematician (born 1809)
 * 14 September – Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (born 1839)
 * 6 December – Louis Blanc, politician and historian (born 1811)
 * 26 December – Henri Le Secq, painter and photographer (born 1818)
 * 31 December – Léon Gambetta, statesman (born 1838)